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Updated: May 18, 2025
She could see herself, now the motherless babe whom Aunt Rachel and Mammy had never let feel her orphanage sitting on the door-step, bedecking her doll with the odorous pink-and-white blossoms in summer time, and in autumn with the light-red berries. "Why is that done?" she asked. "I spiles the prospect, honey!" fiercely ironical.
"Miss Harson," asked Clara, "do people cut down real cherry trees to make the pretty red furniture like that in your room?" "It is the wood of the wild cherry," replied her governess, "that is used for this purpose. It is of a light-red or fresh mahogany color, growing darker and richer with age.
I have a rug treated in this way made from old green carpeting, woven with a red warp, which presents so rich an appearance that it might easily be mistaken for a far more costly one. It has, however, the weak point of having been woven with the ordinary light-red warp of commerce, and is therefore sure to lose colour.
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