They might, however, plant beds every year, and after the first three years have annual crops. Madder is raised in narrow beds, about four feet wide, for the convenience of keeping it free of ...

Blue, yellow and red were three of the main colours of the Iron Age. The root of the madder plant produced a red colour, woad offered blue and yellow was derived from weld. Plants were soaked in ...

We have been informed that there grows wild, in Florida, a plant, whose roots, when eaten by hogs, colors their bones red. Such is the effect of madder. Doubtless this is an indigenous species ...

In some areas, the plant is known as woodruff or madder. It grows throughout Europe and Asia and features small white blossoms. The plant-based pigment was used to dye ten beads made out of shells.