SWEET LAVENDER.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4900, 16 October 1901, Page 4

SWEET LAVENDER.

The village of Wallington, in Surrey, mast have been delightfully fra grant in August, for it is in that month that tbe villagers reap tbeir lavender harvest. The scent-making industry flourishes in several Surrey villages, but it is only 35 years since it was revived. A bazaar was being held in tbe vicinity of Walliugton, to raise money for a mission chapel, and Miss JSpruleo, a neighbor of the vicar, in contributing a box of lavender water to the stalls, said frankly that ihe thought more good would be done by giving tte people work The vicar immediately suggested that as laven dar grew profusely in the district she might, introduce the- manufacture of the water. She accepted the suggestion, and the village industry was thus established. Mis.B Sprulep, now an old lady, has whole fields of laveuder, and in August the purple crop is gathered in aheavefj and curried to the distillery. The great anil is filled with lavender, including tbe Btalk , water is poured on, and the lid ie tightly closed. Tbe furnaces are then lit beneath, and tbe vapor, cooled in tbe worm, condenses and drops into the receiver, the golden-hued oil float ing on top. This oil of lavender is skimmed off, and is kept standing, uncorked, for some months, until the coarse ' still ' odour has disappeared. It is then ready for tbe further processes by which it is converted into the ' English lavender* water ' of com- j merce. Miss Spruleß has introduced other frbgrant industries. Jn some of her fields she has strips of pepper mint, camomile and rosemary, and here are tbere spieudid rose bushes, I the ro»a damascena from which Bulgaria obtains its attar of roses. The Wallington blooms, however, are simply dried and converted into a * conserve of roses,' u«pd by druggisis and confectioners. Lavender-water with '8. Spruies ' on tbe label has Acquired a great reputation, for at tbe outset Ming Sprulus gained the patronage aud support of Queen Victoria. The Queen, indeed, was loyal to the old English scent, even when tbe fashionable world was searching the earthy for tome new and penetrating odour that no flower could produce.

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