PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



In publishing the First Edition of this Rough Draft, I had in- 

 dulged the hope of being able to revise and recast the book suffici- 

 ently to bring it out in 1891 in its final form. Vain hope, alas ! 

 In a first Rough Draft intended solely to fulfil the temporary pur- 

 pose of mere class notes, it was impossible to avoid prolixity of 

 statement and explanation and to steer clear of details that would 

 more strictly find their proper place in a work devoted exclusively 

 to the special cultivation and treatment of particular species. To 

 have recast such a work in the form it must assume in order to 

 become a text-book of the subject of which it proposses to treat, 

 would have necessitated the labour of rewriting it from beginning 

 to end. So vast a task it was impossible for me to undertake with 

 the small amount of leisure at my command. The First Edition 

 was exhausted in less than six months and orders for two hundred 

 more copies had already come in. I had, therefore, no alternative 

 left but to reprint the original Draft, giving to it what slight revi- 

 sion and correction I could effect as the pages were passing through 

 the press. Begun in 1889, the reprint is at last, after many un- 

 avoidable delays, complete, and I trust that I may receive the same 

 measure of indulgence at the hands of the Indian Forest World 

 that was so generously accorded to me when the Original Draft 

 appeared. 



The pages devoted to jardinage and the exploitation of bamboo 

 forest have been entirely rewritten in the light of more recent in- 

 formation and ideas. It was my intention to rewrite also the 

 Chapter on Improvement Fellings ; but, besides that the required 

 leisure would have been wanting to deal with so large and import- 

 ant a branch of indigenous Indian Forestry, I had to fix a limit 

 to the already swollen proportions of the book. 



NAVSARI, BARODA STATE, ") E, E. FERNANDEZ. 



The 16th September 1891. 



