See quotations: Kalmia angustifolia.
1832. The Lamb-kill … has been called mountain Laurel, Spoonwood, Ivy, and Calico Bush. Its wood is dense and hard, and is used as a material in constructing musical instruments, and by mechanics for handles to their tools.—Williamson, ‘History of Maine,’ i. 116.
1851. The Via Dolorosa became to Margaret to-day a via jucundissima, a very pleasant way. Through what some would consider rough woods and bleak pasture land, in a little sheep-track, crooked and sometimes steep, over her hung like a white cloud the wild thorn-tree, large gold-dusted cymes of viburnums, rose-blooming lambkill, and other sorts, suggested all she knew, and more than she knew, of the Gardens of Princes.—S. Judd, ‘Margaret’ (1871), p. 90. (N.E.D.)
