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Evergreen thorn   /ˈɛvərgrˌin θɔrn/   Listen
Evergreen thorn

noun
1.
Evergreen hawthorn of southeastern Europe.  Synonym: Crataegus oxyacantha.






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"Evergreen thorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... South, which are too tender for the North. In White's Gardening for the South, we have the following given as hedge-shrubs, adapted to that region: Osage Orange, Pyracanth, Cherokee, and single White Macartney roses. The Macartney, being an evergreen thorn, and said to make as close a hedge as the Osage Orange and much more beautiful, is quite a favorite at the South. They usually train the rose-shrubs for hedge on some kind of paling or wire fence. They ...
— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden



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