CHAPTER II. 
JARDINAGE,. 
SaRTAGE, which has been noticed in the preceding chapter, 
can scarcely be called with propriety Forest Exploitation; 
with more manifest propriety it may be valled Hxploitation 
of Forest Land ; but the utilisation ot une ashes obtained, 
and the utilisation of the forest trees to produce these 
ashes, justify my treating of it as I have done. With 
Jardinage it is otherwise, in as much as it is employed 
primarily as a means of utilising the trees produced, irre- 
spective of the ground on which they were produced. 
The designation is given in France to a treatment of 
forests prevalent everywhere, according to which a man 
seeks out and fells the tree which he thinks will serve his. 
purpose, whatever that purpose may be, leaving the others 
standing, if they do not happen to be crushed by the fall 
of his tree, or stand in the way of his getting it brought 
out from the forest. 
This method of exploitation gradually exhausts. the 
forest of all trees yielding large timber, as does the practice 
of the gardener, from which the designation given to it 
has been derived, exhaust the bed of leeks, onions, turnips, 
or carrots; gathering one here, another there, as they come 
to maturity. Others have testified what they have seen of 
this effect in different countries in Europe and elsewhere. 
In a volume entitled Hydrology of South Africa* I have 
* Hydrology of South Africa ; or, details of the former hydrographic condition of 
the Cape of Good Hope, and of causes of its present aridity, with suggestions of appro- 
priate remedies for this aridity.—In which the-desiccation of South Africa, from’ pre+ 
Adamic times to the present day, is traced: by indications supplied by geological formas*. 
