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["dwalsh/wchase" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Tom,

Joe Boles mentioned hawthorne as an impenetrable fence after a few years.

I wanted some hawthorne seedlings to use as a rootstock for medlar and I 
found a
vacant plot down the road where there were many seedlings and if you had the
energy, you could have dug two and three and four year old trees.  Hawthorne 
is
very thorny, grows quickly and certainly if interwoven, the fence would stop
anything.

I saw other hawthornes growing in ditches but the municipality crew cut the
vegetation in and beside the ditches a couple of times each year so they were 
not
good for me.

I don't think it would be a problem in Ontario but in rainy coastal BC, 
hawthorne
harbours the scab fungus and that can be a problem if you have an apple 
orchard.

Cheers,

Derry

Derry Walsh & Bill Chase  email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
Aldergrove,  B. C.,  Canada
phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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