THE SPINDLE-TREE. 
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The hardness and toughness of Spindle-wood has long been 
esteemed in the fashioning of small wares where these qualities 
are essential, and the common name is a surtdval of the days 
when spinning was the occupation of ev'ery woman. Then 
spindles were in demand for winding the spun thread upon, and 
A, flowers. 
no wood was more suitable than that of Euonymus for making 
them. It shares with the Cornel {Cornus sanguinea) the name 
Dogwood ; it is also Skewerwood, Erickwood, and Pegwood, 
all suggestive of uses to which it is or was applied. The young 
shoots make a very fine charcoal for artists’ use. 
