least in so far as the standards are concerned. The result is that 

 the rules to be observed in the execution of certain auxiliary opera- 

 tions, as , for example, in the selection of standards, form a neces- 

 sary complement to the Organisation Project for a copse. 



The reserved fourth of communal forests represent taken together 

 a considerable area, and ai'e for the most part treated as 

 copse. We have brought together the statutory prescriptions con- 

 cerning them, showing how they do not require any Organisation 

 Project. And we have indicated the principal points to attend to 

 in treating these portions of larger forests so valuable not only in 

 themselves, but also on account of the indirect service they render 

 in guaranteeing, under most contrary circumstances, the conservation 

 and preservation of the whole forest. 



In the Sixth and last Book, treating of the methods of converting 

 copse into high forest, we have endeavoured to give a clear 

 idea of a good Organisation Project by laying down the principles 

 and the general rules that guide such operations. We have laid 

 particular stress on those conditions of production which render 

 conversions necessary and on the cultural operations which can 

 alone bring them to a successful issue. We believe that in so doing 

 we have placed before the student the question in its entirety. la 

 order to resolve it by drawing up an Organisation Project for a given 

 forest and by carrying out that Project during the whole period of 

 time , which such an undertaking requires, one must be thoroughly 

 conversant with the practical working of forests and the methods of 

 observation required by cultural phenomena, and practised in the 

 manipulation of Organisation Projects for the working of high 

 forests as well as of copses. We cannot therefore profess to teach 

 in a book how to draw up Organisation Projects for the conversion 

 of copses into high forests, much less indeed than any other kind of 

 Organisation Project. 



After mere theoretical studies it would be foolish to think of 

 drawing up an Organisation Project, or even to execute any cultural 

 operation whatsoever. To do so would be as rash as to undertake 

 the construction of a large building the moment one has finished 

 attending a course of lectures on Arthitecture. The Course taught 

 at the Forest School must hence only be considered as an Introduc- 

 tion to the study of Forest Organisation. The outdoor work done by 

 the students duriug the summer is quite as necessary as the theoretical 



