COCOANUT, CITRONELLA OIL, CARDAMOMS, 59

padding and brushes respectively, might be drawn from
Ceylon in large quantities; and poonac (cocoanut cake)
should be worth shipping at our medium low rates for
freight.
Before Ceylon tea secured a foothold there was, besides
plumbago and cocoanut oil, a third product for which the
American demand was large. As with the other two, the
United States continues to this day a large purchaser of
Citronella oil, The production of the oil is a rural industry ;
and the demand for the product unfortunately led to heavy
adulteration, chiefly by means of petroleum. This has

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continued for several years ; and even Schimmel’s test has
proved insufficient to stop the malpractice and rehabilitate
this important Ceylon industry. At the time of writing,
however, Mr. M. Kelway Bamber, F.1.C., F.C.S., M.R.A.C,,
M.R.A.8.E., &c., Government Chemist, has discovered a perfect
 and speedy test which will be promptly adopted by the
European exporting firms, and possibly by the Government,
to effectually stop a practice which has not only depressed
prices, but has driven some of the best customers away to