1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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and works easily, and in a good

grinds very liiie,

body. When delicate painting is required, the dross mixed with the common verdigris makes it improper, and it becomes necessary to use distilled verdigris, which can be had at the shops, and is free from all impurities ; but it is too expensive for ordi- nary purposes. Italian, or Verona, Green. — It is of the same colour as chlorine, which derives its name from the Greek word chloros, signifying a yellowish green. It is very durable, and not acted on by acids, but, being obtained from an earth, does not incorporate well with oil. Saxon, or Hungary, Green, — The colour which bears this name is a carbonate of copper, found in a natural state, in the mountains of Saxony and Hungary, mixed with earthy matters, which give it a polish hue. Scheele's Green. — This colour, called after the cele- brated chemist by whom its composition was first made known, is of a light sea-green colour. It grinds well with oil, and is much in request for the painting of cabins of ships. Schccinfuri Green. — A green which has recently obtained great reputation on the continent, and which is said to surpass Scheele's both in beauty and splendour. Brunswick Green. — A colour thus named is much used for paper-hangings and coarse kind of painting water-colours. Green Verditer. — This is obtained from the same substance as blue verditer, by a process nearly simi- lar. "Without the addition of white lead or Spanish white it is unfit for oil-painting ; and, in any way, it