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Show How to Green Cucumbers. There is no way to impart a green color to cucumbers, that would not be injurious inju-rious to health, except by the use of green leaves, like thoso from the grape-vine. Possibly sap green, which is a preparation from the juice ol' buck-thorn berries, would answer the purpose if it could be obtained here. erdigris can be detected in nearly all the pickles of commerce; but its use is highly objectionable, as it is a poisonous pois-onous acetate of copper. Pickles may be colored with it if the people place a higher regard on the color of the condiment con-diment they eat than on their health. Nearly ail the shades of green arc produced from some combination of arsenic, hut this fact does not prevent the use of them for coloring confectionery. confec-tionery. Cannot some one introduce a new fashion in the color of pickles ? Ex. |