144 FOltBST PLANTING. 



service with the greatest exertions during the last fifty 

 years. 



What we may reasonably expect, is to bring our woods 

 after continued and well-directed operations during 

 the first decade, to a condition in which they may 

 prove self-supporting. Having reached this point, with 

 which a great benefit to our State will be gained — see pa- 

 ges 35 and 36 — we may be confident, that enlarged know- 

 ledge and experience of our Forest Ofiicials in matters of 

 scientific Forestry will render our State forests from year 

 to year more profitable, with a steadily improving condi- 

 tion of the forests; so that the next century may witness 

 such an increase of the wealth to our State from this 

 single source, as we are now entirely unable to imagine. 

 People will then bless those men who undauntedly 

 persisted in establishing a State industry, by which not 

 only the commonwealth derived a handsome income, but 

 which also created the opening of a new and honorable 

 career to many men for profitable employment. This 

 condition of things will be the more gratifying as the peo- 

 ple will not be taxed for the support of a small army of 

 Forest Officials and laborers ; they will be paid by the 

 profits derived from their operations in the culture of the 

 forest, and they will earn much more than they expend. 



In conclusion, a few remarks in regard to the nomen- 

 clature used in the science of forestry might be well- 

 timed. 



Forestry, as applied on the European Continent, being 

 an entirely unknown science in England and its depen- 

 dencies, it is not to be wondered at that the English lan- 

 guage has no designations appropriate to the technical 

 words and methods of managing forests recognized in 

 European forest economy. "We, therefore, in introducing 

 systematic forestry in our country, have mostly to fall 

 back upon the expressions applied in Europe, till we have 

 advanced so far as to establish our own system of desig- 



