5.11.19

(Lyhyet jutut) The blue color... The manzanita tree...

The Galaxy 7, 1876

The blue color sometimes produced in burning bread to ashes is attributed to the formation of ultramarine.

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The manzanita tree, which grows in great numbers in California, is found to be the "host" of a species of coccus resembling the cochineal insect, from which carmine is obtained. It is thought this discovery may be put to practical use.

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