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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
Having learnt, whilst engaged in inquiries amongst manufacturers, and other practical men, that the root of the common Barberry, or Berberis vulgaris, was an article of increasing value in the arts, on account of the fine yellow colour which it contains, and that a new source of this dye stuff was rather a desideratum; I was led to inquire in how far the root in question could be advantageously obtained from India.
page 75 note 1 This colour has been long used in Astrachan and Poland as a dye for leather, and in some parts of Germany for staining wood of a bright yellow colour.