Unfortunately most of the remedies he suggested were limited to spraying of insecticides and pesticides such as lindane, malathion dichlorose, copper sulphate or citronella oil.
Citronella oil mixed with water can also be used for spraying on the bags.
A recommended formula is, oil of citronellaone ounce, spirits of camphor one ounce, oil of cedar one-half ounce.
When nearly cool stir in three ounces of oil of citronella and 1-1/4 oz.
You see, citronella comes out in the wash, but there are one or two other things much stronger.
I was sitting in the doorway of the kitchen where I could smell the heliotrope and citronella while I chopped apples and meat for the mince pies.
Mammy Susan had been growing a citronella slip for her and it had reached quite a pretentious size and begun to branch out like the parent plant.
The delicious smell of Mammy's fruit cake, baking in the range, mingled with the citronella and the wine sap apples I was chopping.
It looks like Mammy Susan has all the luck with citronella and I have luck with rose geranium.
The Indian distillers, it is claimed, adulterate the citronella oil with petroleum, an addition up to 25 per cent.
Then filter and perfume with bergamot oil 14 drachms, citronella oil 1½ drachms.
Citronella oil is much used for perfuming cheap hair oils and toilet soaps; it is the chief constituent of all perfumes for honey-soaps.
An excellent perfume for ordinary soaps is a mixture of safrol and citronella oil, it being at any rate preferable to oil of mirbane.
It must not be confounded with the so-called East India oil of melissa or citronella oil from Andropogon Nardus L.
Citronella oil (oleum citronellæ) is chiefly distilled in Ceylon from the lemon grass, Andropogon Nardus, L.
The process is very similar to that employed in the manufacture of citronella oil.
Lemon-grass oil, which is known in commerce as citronella oil, is a delightful extract from the rank lemon grass, which covers most of' the hillsides in the more open districts of Ceylon.
In the Southern province of Ceylon some half dozen estates about Galle are cultivated with citronella grass.
Then a film of citronellawas spread over hands and faces, and a bottle of the pungent mixture was carried along as the Girl Scouts took the trail again, since it was voted that a fish of their own taking must be served for supper.
There were a few mosquitoes, but the citronella took care of them, or, rather drove them off, and soon the lines were in the water, with the bobs floating about.
If citronella won't work, try a smudge, and make it of green cedar branches.
Ceylon Citronella oil has the specific gravity at 15° C.
Geraniol, a cyclic alcohol, occurring largely in geranium, palma-rosa, and citronella oils.
Citronellal, an aldehyde possessing the characteristic odour of citronella oil, in which it occurs to the extent of about 20 per cent.
The aldehyde citronellal is converted by acetic anhydride into isopulegol acetate, so that this is also included in the determination of graniol in citronella oil.
Oil of citronella and oil of lemon grass are sometimes substituted for lemon oil.
Instead of the red color and the white compound, citronella gives a bright yellow color, which does not disappear for some time.
And, of course, everybody pretended they knew who Citronella and Stegomyia were.
I have been forced to get all my information about Citronella and Stegomyia from English writers.
Voke Easeley said: "The plaint ofCitronella is full of a passion of dream that only the Italian poets have found the language for.
And I might have known it from the first, for I always use citronella for mosquitoes in the country.
Maybe you would be good enough to tell me what Italian poet it is who has turned out the most recent version of Citronella and Stegomyia?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "citronella" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
