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340 The Book of Woodcraft Yellow by boiling the inner bark of black oak or the root of gold seal or hydrastis. Orange by boiling the inner bark of alder, of sassafras or of the yellow oak. Scarlet by first dyeing yellow, then dipping in red. Nearly every tree bark, root bark and fruit has a peculiar dye of its own which may be brought out by boiling, and intensified with vinegar, ^alt, alum, iron or uric salts. Experiments usually produce surprises.