It requires three years to bring madder to perfection, and I am afraid this will prevent our cultivators from growing it, as few of them would be willing to wait that time for returns. They might ...

Despite the plant's common name, the berries aren't a coffee substitute; they don't contain caffeine. Though, as a madder (Rubiaceae) family plant, they are cousins. Wild coffee is native to ...

Synthetic alizarin did not replace natural madder immediately. The French government attempted to protect its madder-growing industry by making it mandatory to use madder in dying trousers for the ...

Crimson lake could, however, equally be made from the root of the madder plant or cochineal extracted from insects in eastern Europe or, after the Spanish conquests, the New World. The berry-like ...