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most brilliant green. The different shades of yellow are made from yellow ochre or chrome yellow ; to be first ground, and then mixed with white lead, and brought to any shade required. These fine colors, for the most part, are used for cordial barrels. Do- mestic brandies, from long usage, are put up in wood colored heading. The American fancy brands of whiskey are often put up with neatly varnished oak- heads, which makes a very neat appearance. A small portion of burnt amber is added to the varnish to give the heads a darkish hue to be in keeping with the dull and oldish looking staves. The appearance just mentioned is imparted to the staves by sulphuric acid, &c., as above ; that is, where the spirit is de- nominated " old," the manufacturer should have a complete set of brands and branding plates for foreign and domestic liquors. The imitation liquors should, if necessary, have the brands burnt in the head of the barrel ; and some dealers have adopted the plan of marking the head of the barrel in the same, style as the custom-house marks, and reads something like the following : " Mary Pell, New York, June 9, 1851." Any other names, of course, would answer. All that is necessary is to have them resemble, as much as possible, what they are intended to represent. It is supposed that the bar- rels to be used are new ones, which always should