Blue

Blue-black, 25 lbs.; whiting, 100 lbs.; road dust, silted, 200 lbs.; lime-water, 12 gallons. Factitious linseed oil to grind.

White Patnt

Whiting, 500 lbs.; white-lead, 400 lbs.; lime-water, 20 gallons Factitious linseed-oil to grind.

Black Paint

Ivory or lamp-black, 100 lbs.; road-dust, sifted, 200 lbs.; lime-water, 18 gallons. Oil to grind.

Brown Paint

Venetian red, or Spanish brown, 1 cwt.; road-dust, 3 cwt; common soot, 28 lbs.; lime-water, 15 lbs. Factitious linseed oil to grind.

Parts Green

Take unslaeked lime of the best quality, slack it with hot water; then take the finest part of the powder, and add alum-water as strong as it can be made, sufficient to form a thick paste; then color it with bi-chromate of potash and sulphate of copper until the color suits your fancy, and dry it for use. N. B.- The sulphate of copper gives a blue tinge; the bi-chromate of potash, a yellow. Observe this, and you will get it right.

Beautiful Green Paint For Walls

Take 4 lbs. Roman vitriol, and pour on it a tea-kettle full of boiling water. When dissolved, add 2 lbs. pearlash, and stir the mixture well with a stick until the effervescence ceases; then add ¼ lb. pulverized yellow arsenic, and stir the whole together. Lay it on with a paint-brush; and, if the wall has not been printed before, two, or even three coats will be requisite. If a pea green is required, put in less; if an apple green, more of the yellow arsenic. This paint does not cost the quarter of oil-paint, and looks better.

Blue Color For Ceilings, Etc

Boil slowly for 3 hours 1 lb. blue vitriol and ½ lb. of the best whiting in about 3 qts. water; stir it frequently while boiling, and also on taking it off the fire. When it has stood till quite cold, pour off the blue liquid, then mix the cake of color with good size, and use it with a plasterer's brush in the same manner as whitewash, either for walls or ceilings.