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than flowery in odor; it therefore finds no place for handkerchief use. CASSIE.-- "The short narcissus and fair daffodil, Pansies to please the sight, and _cassie_ sweet to swell." DRYDEN'S _Virgil_. This is one of those fine odors which enters into the composition of the best handkerchief bouquets. [Illustration: Flower-buds of the Acacia Farnesiana.] When smelled at alone, it has an intense violet odor, and is rather sickly sweet. It is procured by maceration from the _Acacia farnesiana_. The purified fat is melted, into which the flowers are thrown and left to digest for several hours; the spent flowers are removed, and fresh are added, eight or ten times, until sufficient richness of perfume is obtained. As many flowers are used as the grease will cover, when they are put into it, in a liquid state. After being strained, and the pomade has been kept at a heat sufficient only to retain its liquidity, all impurities will subside by standing for a few days. Finally cooled, it is the cassie pomade of commerce. The _Huile de Cassie_, or fat oil of cassie, is prepared in a similar manner, substituting the oil of Egyptian ben nut, olive oil, or almond oil, in place of suet. Both these preparations are obviously only a solution of the true essential oil of cassie flowers in the neutral fatty body. Europe ma  y shortly be expecting to import a similar scented pomade from South Australia, derived from the Wattle, a plant that belongs to the same genus as the _A. farnesiana_, and which grows most luxuriantly in Australia. Mutton fat being cheap, and the wattle plentiful, a profitable trade may be anticipated in curing the flowers, &c. To prep
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