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  • The lower elevation had agave, faxon yucca (with huge spikes towering to the sky), and sotol (deep green, long serrated edge leaves that were used by the Apache-Mescalero Indians from the region), while upper elevation gave rise to ponderosa pines and other higher elevation species.

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  • The lower elevation had agave, faxon yucca (with huge spikes towering to the sky), and sotol (deep green, long serrated edge leaves that were used by the Apache-Mescalero Indians from the region), while upper elevation gave rise to ponderosa pines and other higher elevation species.

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  • The faxon apple green is dyed in the bath which has ferved for faxon green, after one third or one half of it has been taken out, and after it has been cooled; the cloth is turned in it until it is near boiling.

    Elements of the Art of Dyeing Claude-Louis Berthollet 1791

  • Silk dyed in this manner has neither the reddiih call given by the blue vat, nor the greenilh caft of the faxon blue.

    Elements of the Art of Dyeing Claude-Louis Berthollet 1791

  • To make englilh green, which is more beautiful than common green, and more dura - ble than faxon green, Mr. Guhliche firft gives the filk a light blue in the cold vat, (oaks it in warm water, and wafhes it in a ftream, dips it in a weak folution of alum, prepares a bath with the folution of indigo in fulphuric

    Elements of the Art of Dyeing Claude-Louis Berthollet 1791

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