"Purplish red" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ferro-cyanide of potassium, obtained at a drug store. A few drops of this mixture will disappear if the lime is equal or in excess of the copper sulphate, that is, it will be neutralized, but if it is not, they will remain a bright purplish red. Bordeaux mixture is used in strengths varying from three to five pounds each of bluestone and lime in fifty gallons of water, but the former is ...
— Apple Growing • M. C. Burritt
... suffused her face a purplish red; her voice was shrill with dismay; her eyes hung on the young man as though ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... Properly a biennial plant, but, like the White species, usually cultivated as an annual. It is distinguished from the last named by its color; the whole plant being stained or tinted with purplish red. In the size and color of the seeds, and general habit of the plant, there are no marks of distinction, when compared with ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr |
