Aurora. 



Golden-yellow aurora, from the stalks and fresh leaves oi Bidens tripartita, the trifid water 

 hemp agrimony: not so bright from the dry plant. 



Tarnished, from the yew tree. Taxus baccata. 



Brilliant, with nitro-muriat of tin and alum in the decoction of the same. 



From the dry flowers of furze, Ulex Europaea, with a little madder. 



Cinnamon-aurora, from the young shoots of the Lombardy poplar, Populus Pyramidalis, 

 with one forty-eighth of madder. 



From the roots of a wild apple-tree. 



Aurora-capuchine, from the Virginia sumach, Rhus Virginiana, Stags-horns. Quere, if 

 this be also the Rhus typhinum? This required two baths. 



The capuchin tinge increased by a small quantity of madder. 



From the dry straw of buckwheat. Polygonum fagopyrum, with a nitro-muriat of tin. 



Rich and brilliant with nitro-muriat of tin and gold from the dried straw of buck- 

 wheat, the fruit of the berries of the black berry-bearing alder, Rhamnus frangula, and a 

 little madder. 



Blue. 



The blue vat, Saxon blue, and logwood blue as usual. 



Logwood blue, made more solid by the bark of the birch tree, Betula alba, with the 

 nitro-muriat of tin. 



Bluish gray, from the common black elder berries, Sambucus nigra. 



Handsome blue, but fugitive, from the same berries and sulphat of copper. 



Browns. 

 Rappie snuff brown: fresh alder, Betula alnus. 

 Olive brown, from the shoots of Agnus castus. 



Deep brown, from the stalks and leaves of Leonurus cardiaca, mother wort. 

 The most beautiful and solid colour from fresh walnut peel. 

 Puce-brown, from the fresh bark of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. 

 Same from the shoots of the marsh elder, or Guelder rose while in sap. Viburnum 

 opulus. 



Gray-olive, deep brown, from the stalks and leaves of Parietaria, Pellitory of the wall. 



Caca-Dauphin, or Bright Fawn Colour. 

 Bright greenish, from common heath, Erica vulgaris, and buckwheat straw, both dry, 

 with nitro-muriat of tin. 

 Light fawn, from buckwheat straw dried: beautiful with solution of tin and gold. 

 Olive fawn, from dry buckwheat straw and dried berries of the Rhamnus frangula. 

 Avanturin-fawn, from the same, with bismuth mordant. 



Cinnamon. 

 From the shoots of the rose-acacia, Robinia hispida, with bismuth. 

 From the shoots of the apricot tree. 



From the stem and roots of the bilberry or whortle-berry, Vaccinium myrtillus. 

 From the branches of the broad-leaved trumpet flowers, Bignonia Catalpa. 

 Rich, from a half spent bath of logwood and sumach with tin and gold solution. 

 Light nankin, from the fresh wood of the common horn beam, Carpinus Betulus, barked. 

 Yellowish, (very good) from the Cyprus, Cupressus foliis acaciae deciduis: Virginia: mixed 

 with the dry shoots of the horn beam. 



From the roots of the Fragaria vesca, or strawberry. 



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