. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. DYES AND DYEING DYES AND DYEING 269 "In 1742, George Lucas, governor of Antigua, sent the first seeds of the indigo plant to Carolina, to his daughter, Miss Eliza Luc;is (afterwards the mother of Charles Cotes- worth Pinckney). With much perseverance, after several disappointments, she succeeded in growing the plant and extracting the indigo from it. Parliament shortly aft
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. DYES AND DYEING DYES AND DYEING 269 "In 1742, George Lucas, governor of Antigua, sent the first seeds of the indigo plant to Carolina, to his daughter, Miss Eliza Luc;is (afterwards the mother of Charles Cotes- worth Pinckney). With much perseverance, after several disappointments, she succeeded in growing the plant and extracting the indigo from it. Parliament shortly after placed a bounty on the production of indigo in British possessions, and this crop attained a rapid development in Carolina. In 1754, 216,924 pounds and, in 1777,1,107,660 pounds were produced. But the war with the mother country, the competition of indigo-culture in the East Indies, the unpleasant odor emitted and the swarms of flies attracted by the fermentation of the weeds in the vats, and above all the absorbing interest in the cotton crop, caused the rapid decline of its culture, and in the early part of this century it had ceased to be a staple product, although it was in cultivation in remote places as late as ; (From "South Carolina," by Harry Ham- mond.) Jackwood, or jack fruit of Ceylon : Artocarpus integ- rifolia. Alumina lake, yellow. Kamala, or kameela, ramelas, rottlera: Echinus Philippinensis {Rottlera tinctoria). Red powder. Kermes berries, or portugal berries, poke berries, pigeon berries, scoke berries: Phytolacca Americana {Phytolacca decandra). Reddish. kermes, or false kermes berries, graines de kermes, vermilion vegetal: Coccus ilicis (dried bodies of the female insect). Solutions and lakes, blood red. Kino : Pterocarpus Marsupium, Butea frondosa, B. superba, and varieties. Eucalyptus corymbosa. Red color. Lac-dye, or lac-lac: Coccus laccce (from the female insect). Colors similar to cochineal. Lapacho, or taigu wood: Tecoma Lapacho
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