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Excerpt from The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States, in Their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects, Vol. 2
There are no special medical virtues attributed to our species, nor is it of any known use in the arts, although, doubtless, it has some useful qualities in common with other species of the same genus. In China, the ladies, instead of priding them selves on the whiteness of their teeth, color them black, and the dye which they employ for this purpose is said to be made from the petals of the Rose Hibiscus. In all probability the petals of our Scarlet Hibiscus possess the same property, and when the Chinese have become numerous enough in America to cre ate a sufficient demand, some enterprising business man may perhaps put this hint to practical use by establishing a tooth dye manufactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
