A growing hedge.
1829. Messrs. G. Th. and Son have imported 75,000 hawthorns, for “live fencing.”—Mass. Spy, March 25: from the Boston Courier.
1847. Among this undergrowth was a species of thorn that would be excellent for live fence, also a kind of tough wood that would answer many good purposes on a farm.—‘Life of Benjamin Lundy,’ p. 47 (Phila.).
