e stills are let out at so much per day or
week, and it frequently occurs that the residents prepare some
rose-water for their own use as a present to their friends, to
secure their being provided with that which is the best. The natives
never remove the calices of the rose-flowers, but place the whole
into the still as it comes from the garden.

The best plan appears to be to have these removed, as by this means
the rose-water may be preserved a longer time, and is not spoiled by
the acid smell occasionally met with in the native rose-water. It is
usual to calculate 100 bottles to one lac of roses. The rose-water
should always be twice distilled; over ten thousand roses water may
be put to allow of sixteen or twenty bottles coming out; the
following day these twenty bottles are placed over eight thousand
more roses, and about eighteen bottles of rose-water are distilled.
This may be considered the best to be met with. The attar is so much
lighter than the rose-water, that, previous to use, it is better to
expose the rose-water to the sun for a few days, to allow of its
being well mixed; and rose-water that has been kept six months is
always better than that which has recently been made.

At the commencement of the rose season, people from all parts come
to make their purchases, and very large quantities are prepared and
sold. There are about thirty-six places in the city of Ghazeepore
where rose-water is distilled. These people generally put a large
quantity of sandal oil into the receiver, the oil is afterwards
carefully removed and sold as sandal attar, and the water put into
carboys and disposed of as rose-water. At the time of sale a few
drops of sandal oil are placed on the neck of the carboy to give it
fresh scent, and to many of the natives it appears perfectly
immaterial whether the scent arises solely from the sandal oil or
from the roses. Large quantities of sandal oil are every year
brought up from the south and expended in this way.

6. The chief use the natives appear to make of the rose water, or
the sandal attar as they term it, is at the period of their
festivals and weddings. It is then distributed largely to the guests
as they arrive, and sprinkled with profusion in the apartments. A
large quantity of rose water is sold at Benares, and many of the
native Raj