JARDINAGE. 99 



Yet the system has its advantages, in view of certain 

 results which may be sought. It is not a nv> le of exploita- 

 tion producing in all places and in all circumstances 

 unmixed evil evil, only evil, and that continually. The 

 object I have set before me in sitting down to prepare the 

 following report is not to condemn Jardinage, neither is it 

 to commend or to justify it, but to supply information in 

 regard to its details as carried out in the North of Russia, 

 leaving to rny readers to make what use they may desire, 

 or be able to effect of the information given. 



The object aimed at by the most advanced forest man- 

 agement of the day is to secure by the operations adopted 

 a sustained production of wood, a progressive amelioration 

 of the condition of the forests, and a continuous material 

 reproduction of the woods ; and this is called for in Germany 

 and in France. 



But there are cases in which a great quantity of wood is 

 suddenly called for cases in which a continuous supply 

 of fuel or small wood for other purposes is desired and 

 cases in which the production of wood of a given bulk at a 

 period more or less remote is required. The treatment 

 given to a forest must be different in each of these cases. 



There are also cases in which it is not wood, but the 

 money for which wood may be sold, that is wanted money 

 coming in in instalments over a period more or less pro- 

 tracted, or money required at once ; and measures must be 

 adopted accordingly. 



Again there are cases in which it is amenity and shelter, 

 or a covert for game, irrespective, it may be, of all besides, 

 or it may be along with one or more of the objects speci- 

 fied; and again this must determine the course of action 

 followed. 



And yet again it may be none of all these things which 

 is desired, but the ground upon which the forest grows 

 which is wanted for horticultural or agricultural purposes 

 or the clearing away of the forest for climatic effect, has 

 been resolved on ; and again a particular course of action 



