THE TREES OF THE FOREST 75 



Spyre, or spire, is a word found in some of the later wood 

 accounts ; it denoted a young upstanding tree, and is still 

 occasionally used by woodmen. 



The term blestro, or blettro, occurs frequently in earlier attach- 

 ment court rolls (e.g. Plate in.); it means a sapling, usually 

 of oak. Stubb, or stub, in like records, appears to signify a 

 dead or decaying pollarded tree, and not a mere stump. 



