Brown is a colour which may be regarded as a mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow. There are various brown pigments, mostly of mineral origin, as bistre, umber, cappagh brown, etc. Brown as a colour is associated with the earth and with soil. With ordinary or working activities or people. Brown is a drab, peasant or poor colour. Brown is also associated with wood and with trees. With honesty and unpretentiousness.
Almond - A rich pale brown colour.
Bisque - A pale, yellowish-brown colour like baked biscuit.
Burnt sienna - A rich reddish brown, earthy colour.
Butterscotch - A pale yellowish-brown colour.
Chocolate - A rich dark brown colour.
Hazel - A greenish-brown usually associated with the colour of eyes.
Crossroads was a British soapoperatelevision series following the daily lives of the staff and guests of a fictional Birmingham motel. Crossroads was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling and ran from 1964 to 1988. Research Crossroads
A divining rod is a rod, usually of hazel, with two forked branches, used by persons who profess to discover minerals or water under ground. The rod, if carried slowly along by the forked ends, dips and points downwards, it is affirmed, when brought over the spot where the concealed mineral or water is to be found. The use of the divining-rod is still common in many parts, and during the Victorian era various wonderful instances of its efficacy in discovering water were published in respectable prints. Research Diving Rod
Arachis is a genus of leguminous plants much cultivated in warm climates, and esteemed a valuable article of food. The most remarkable feature of the genus is that when the flower falls the stalk supporting the small undeveloped fruit lengthens, and bending towards the ground pushes the fruit into the ground, when it begins to enlarge and ripen. The pod of Arachis hypogoea (popularly called ground nut, earth nut, or peanut) is of a pale yellow colour, and contains two seeds the size of a hazel-nut, in flavour sweet as almonds, and yielding when pressed an excellent oil. Research Arachis
A gall (also known as a gall-nut or nut-gall) is a growth caused on plants of various kinds by parasitic mites (Phytoptidae). The galls of commerce are produced by a species of Cynips (Gall-fly) in the tender shoots of the Quercus infectoria, a species of oak abundant in Asia Minor, Syria, Iraq, etc. They are spherical and tubercular, and vary in magnitude from the size of a pea to that of a hazel-nut. White, green, and blue varieties are recognized, the latter kinds being the best. They are inodorous, but are strongly astringent from the tannin and gallic acid which they contain, and which are their chief products. Gall-nuts were extensively used in dyeing and in the manufacture of ink, and they were also frequently used in medicine. They were chiefly imported from Aleppo, Tripoli, and Smyrna. The Chinese galls, or woo-pei-tsze, differ from the foregoing in that they are really an unusually massive kind of crust or cocoon, such as the aphides form on the surface of a plant; the tissues of the plant are not affected. After the opening of the Japanese ports these were imported in considerable quantities to Britain. Research Gall
The hazel-grouse (Bonasa sylvestris, also called Tetrastes bonasia, etc),is a species of grouse inhabiting Europe and Asia. It is found in healthy tracts, woods and forests. It feeds on berries, buds, insects and worms. Research Hazel-grouse
The hazel is a shrub and sometimes small tree of the genus Corylus, sub-family Corylaceae, family Betulaceae, found in Europe, North Africa, Asia, and North America.. The leaves are roundish-cordate, alternate and shortly petiolate. The bark is reddish-brown and smooth. The plant is monoecious, the male flowers are clustered in pendulous catkins, the female flowers are arranged in erect, short, bud-like spikes with protruding red styles. The fruit is a hard, brown, rounded nut (filbert), enclosed by an irregularly lobed green involucre.
The European hazel (Corylus Avellana) produces the nuts called filberts, and grows best in a tolerably dry soil. It bears male and female flowers, the former composing cylindrical catkins. The hazel-nut oil is little inferior in flavour to that of almonds. Hazel branches form excellent walking-sticks, fishing-rods, etc, and the wood produces good charcoal, often employed by painters.
The American hazel (Corylus. americana) very much resembles the European. The roots are used by cabinet-makers for veneering; and in Italy the chips were formerly sometimes put into turbid wine for the purpose of fining it.
The witch hazel or wych hazel, Hamamelis virginica, is a shrub or small tree of a different natural order, the Hamamelidaceae. It is a native of the United States, and healing properties have long been ascribed to it both by the Indians and the settlers. A liquid prepared from it is said to be useful as an application to wounds, stanching the bleeding and promoting healing, being applied also to bruises, sprains, bleeding piles, in internal bleeding, etc. There arc several officinal preparations of the witch-hazel, especially a fluid extract and a tincture. The former American patent medicine, Pond's Extract, owed its chief properties to the witch-hazel. Research Hazel
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