The Southern Cross

Whene'er those southern seas I sail, I find my eyes instinctive turning Where, pure and marvelously pale, Four sacred stars are brightly burning.

A little article about the Southern Cross by Mary Proctor for older children from the St. Nicolas magazine, October, 1899. Free and in public domain.

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Make Your Own Vegetable Dyes

From Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer, published in 1938, London:

"PLANTS WHICH DYE RED

Birch. Betula alba. Fresh inner bark.

Bed-straw. Gallium boreale. Roots.

Common Sorrel. Rumex acetosa. Roots.

Dyer's Woodruff. Asperula tinctoria. Roots.

Evergreen Alkanet. Anchusa sempervirens.

Gromwell. Lithospermum arvense.

Lady's Bedstraw. Gallium verum. Roots.

Marsh Potentil. Potentilla Comarum. Roots.

Potentil. Potentilla Tormentilla. Roots.

Wild Madder. Rubia peregrina."

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