Here are the answers to Grangetto's Garden Trivia questions.
| Plant Vocabulary | Missing Words |
|---|---|
| 1.The roots of barberry were boiled to produce a ______ dye for both wool and leather. | yellow |
| 2.The dandelion is a weed to us today, but in past centuries the entire plant was boiled to produce a _________ dye for wood. | magenta |
| 3. The bark of the hemlock tree was used in the tanning of leather. It produced a ______dye. | reddish brown |
| 4. Red maple bark was used to dye worsted and linen a ___color. | dark blue |
| 5. Sumac is viewed as a coarse weed, but before “Rit” packaged everything so nice and easy it was a valuable dye source. The leaves produced brown; the berries were boiled to yield _____. | beige |