312 CONCLUSION. 



to yield to the varying requirements of different forests and loca- 

 lities, must be equally vicious ; and more than this, it must infal- 

 libly result in its slaves overlooking some important facts and 

 indispensable conditions. 



Indeed, it is this very danger of carrying into effect precon- 

 ceived opinions that justifies us in warning the Amdtiagiste against 

 seeking any perfect solution of the problems before him, the reali- 

 zation of some impossible ideal, and in advising him to confine 

 himself to doing his best to obtain the results required and no more. 

 If imbued with this spirit , he knows the forest he is dealing with, 

 if, moreover, he is careful to conform to the essential rules of forest 

 organisation, and allows himself 'to be giaided by the true prin- 

 ciples of sylviculture by endeavouring to obtain from well-constituted 

 crops and promising trees only such products as the soil can yield^ 

 he will scarcely ever fail to draw up good Organisation Projects. 



