MR. F. LONG ON THE BOUGHS AND TRUNKS OF FOREST TREES. 617 
1 observed most part of the ground betwixt the pipes planted 
with withens [willows], except one orchard of cherry-trees Here 
were three dogs of different colours, none so little, nor seeming 
so nimble as my coy-dogs. Here much oats is used as in my 
coy ; very few ducks bred here this summer come to good.” 
1 le went on to “ Glassenburye ” to the description of the Abbey, 
there he devotes some space, but says nothing about the decoy 
owned by the Abbey at Sharpham park. 
All these particulars of decoys are of considerable interest, 
relating as they do to a method of taking fowl once so largely 
practised, but now, except in a few favoured localities, virtually 
abandoned in this country ; and as some of the decoys referred 
to have not, 1 believe, hitherto been mentioned by writers on 
the subject, they seem worthy of recording in a county mice the 
stronghold of these singular structures and in which the art of 
decoying still lingers. 
III. 
ON THE CAUSE OF THE THICK ADVENTITIOUS 
GROWTH ON THE ROUGHS AND TRUNKS 
OF OUR FOREST TREES, 
CHIEFLY THE OAKS AND ELMS. 
r.Y F. Long, L.R.C.P., President, N. & N. Nat. Soc. 
Ren< I 29th September , 1903. 
My apology for bringing this papef before the Society on the 
night of its first meeting after the summer vacation is, that in 
another month or so the leaves will have been falling and the 
trees will only in imagination present the appearance that I am 
about to describe. 
Any one going along the roads or walking through woods and 
plantations could hardly fail to lie struck by the excessive amount 
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