3. Red with black; brown, chocolate, marone, &c.
4. Yellow with blue; green of a great variety of shades; such as nascent green, gay green, grass green, spring green, laurel green, sea green, celadon green, parrot green, cabbage green, apple green, duck green.
5. Mixtures of colours, three and three, and four and four, produce an indefinite diversity of tints; thus red, yellow and blue, form brown olives, and greenish grays; in which the blue dye ought always to be first given, lest the indigo vat should be soiled by other colours. Red, yellow, and gray, (which is a gradation of black), give the dead-leaf tint, as well as dark orange, snuff colour, &c. Red, blue and gray give a vast variety of shades; as lead gray, slate gray, wood-pigeon gray, and other colours, too numerous to specify. See [Brown Dye].
The following list of dyes, and the colouring substances which produce them, may prove useful.
Red. [Cochineal], [kermes], [lac], [madder], [archil], [carthamus] or [safflower], [brazil wood], [logwood], [periodide of mercury], [alkanet].
Yellow. [Quercitron], [weld], [fustic] (yellow wood), [annotto], sawwort, dyer’s broom, [turmeric], [fustet] (rhus cotinus), [Persian and Avignon berries] (rhamnus infectorius), willow, peroxide of iron; [chromate of lead] (chrome yellow), [sulphuret of arsenic], hydrosulphuret of antimony; [nitric acid] on silk.
Blue. [Indigo], [woad or pastel], [Prussian blue], [turnsole or litmus], [logwood] with a salt of copper.
Black. [Galls], [sumach], [logwood], [walnut peels], and other vegetables which contain tannin and gallic acid, along with ferruginous mordants. The anacardium of India.
Green. These are produced by the blue and yellow dyes skilfully combined; with the exception of the [chrome green], and perhaps the [copper green of Schweinfurt].