The summer season's work in our forests and plantations being 

 completed, the forester should now have some leisure time at his 

 disposal, before the busy planting season commences, which, with the 

 sanction and encouraging assistance of his employer, ought to be 

 devoted to visiting the woods and plantations on other estates, more 

 especially those noted for their good management, and the extent and 

 variety of the operations and improvements conducted upon them. 

 With such cheap and expeditious means of travelling as we now 

 possess, which entail no great sacrifice of either time or money, 

 foresters should be enabled by their employers to make an annual 

 excursion of a week or two's duration among the woods and 

 plantations in their own district, and afterwards extend their 

 peregrinations to those in distant parts of Great Britain, and even in 

 course of time to the great forests and ^Forest Schools of Continental 

 Europe, so that they might see and become acquainted with the best 

 systems of forestry followed in the different districts of the country ; 

 they would thereby acquire a knowledge of their profession, in many 

 of its varied features, which it is almost impossible for them to do by any 

 other means, resulting, we believe, in the marked improvement of the 

 majority of our woodlands and plantations, and the consequent greatly 

 increased returns from their produce to the proprietors of them. 



We are aware that the slender means of most of our foresters will 

 not permit of very extensive or long continued journeys, but landed 

 proprietors who employ foresters, and study their own interests as well 

 as the happiness and prosperity of their employes, will not fail to see 

 that their foresters are provided with the necessary means for enjoy- 

 ing a tour of visiting amongst their brethren of the craft, inspecting in 

 their company the woods, &c., under their charge, discussing the 



VOL. I. 2d 



