--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1840 to 1841. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 2 number: 5 published: 1841-01-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Its Coloring Properties,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 5 (January 1, 1841): 269." printed_title: ITS COLORING PROPERTIES. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-01-01_2_5 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n05.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-01-01_2_5 start_page: 269 end_page: 269 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-01-01_2_5 publication_year: 1841 --- # Its Coloring Properties The juice of the vine affords one of the most durable vegetable colors known to dyers; and it is certainly very beautiful and brilliant. The further investigation of the various properties of this plant, must be left to another time more auspicious, or to others whose time and talents will enable him to ferret out the matter more circumstantially than I have done.