CHAPTER II. 



JARDINAGE. 



SARTAGE, which has been noticed in the preceding chapter, 

 can scarcely be called with propriety Forest Exploitation; 

 with more manifest propriety it may bo oalled Exploitation 

 of Forest Land ; but the utilisation ot v,ae ashes obtained, 

 and the utilisation of the forest trees to produce these 

 ashes, justify my treating of it as I have done. With 

 Jardinage it is otherwise, in as much as it is employed 

 primarily as a means of utilising the trees produced, irre- 

 spective of the ground on which they were produced. 



The designation is given in France to a treatment of 

 forests prevalent everywhere, according to which a man 

 seeks out and fells the tree which he thinks will serve his 

 purpose, whatever that purpose may be, leaving the others 

 standing, if they do not happen to be crushed by the fall 

 of his tree, or stand in the way of his getting it brought 

 out from the forest. 



This method of exploitation gradually exhausts the 

 forest of all trees yielding large timber, as does the practice 

 of the gardener, from which the designation given to it 

 has been derived, exhaust the bed of leeks, onions, turnips, 

 or carrots, gathering one here, another there, as they come 

 to maturity. Others have testified what they have seen of 

 this effect in different countries in Europe and elsewhere. 

 In a volume entitled Hydrology of South Africa* I have 



* Hydrology of South Africa ; or, details of the former hydrographic condition of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and of causes of its present aridity, with suggestions of appro- 

 priate remedies for this aridity.~In which the desiccation of South Africa, from pre- 

 Adamic time* to the present day, is traced by indications supplied by geological forma- 



