VEGETABLES. oOt 



ito (Jy^s a beautiful yellow ; the trivial name of this 

 plant is unknown. 



The slender rooted gallium tinctorium^ which 

 grows abundantly in the woods, swamps, and banks 

 cf rivers in the middle and back parts of Pennsyl- 

 TaBia, and Canada, and on the western waters, 

 also dyes an admirable red. The Indians fix the co- 

 lour on their porcupine quills, used in ornamenting 

 their wampum belts and shot pouches, with the acid 

 juice of the crab apple, fp.yrus coronaria ). The 

 root oi sanguinaria Canadensis^ or puccoon, already 

 noticed as a valuable medicine, dyes a fine orange co- 

 ter ; and is much used by the Indians. The murio 

 ^nlfihate of dn, as a mordant produces a handsome 

 colour, sufficiently permanent on cotton and linen. 

 Alluni is also a tolerable good mordant for silk and 

 flanneh 



Tlie various species of juglans by means of the 

 most srmple mordants, enable our farmers to dye the 

 Bciost useful brown and other colours. 



The acer rubrum^ or red maple, with the sulphate 

 ©f iron (copperas) as a mordant, dyes a good purple. 



Madder, though not native, gr/3ws well in all the 

 states,^ and was formerly extensively cultivated in 

 South Carolina, the cHmate and soil of which state is 

 Mghly congenial to it. It is an accommodating plant, 

 feeing a native of Persia, and yet flourishing in the 

 moist cold province of Zealand, which is almost en- 

 tirely covered with this plant ; whence it is exported 

 to. every part of Europe and America, yielding 

 almost incalculable profit. 



Indigo thrives in the southern states, and before 



