90 THE FOREST LANDS OF NORTHERN RUSSIA. 
given the following account of what I have seen, not in 
one forest alone, but in many widely dispersed over the 
colony of the Cape of Good Hope, supplying illustrations 
of the first, the second, and the final stages of the devasta- 
tion thus occasioned :— 
Under a system of forest management which, borrowing 
a term employed in works on forest science in France, I 
may call primitive Jardinage, the forests in the colony have 
been long gradually disappearing. The system followed 
was to cut down trees such as might be required, leaving 
others standing, but doing nothing to promote their growth, 
or to replace those which were removed. 
I have before me a chart of the forests of the Tzizi- 
Kamma. From information supplied to me by Captain 
Harrison, the Conservator of forests in the district, J have 
gathered the following particulars, which I give, as illus- 
trative of what I may call the first stage of the work of 
destruction under the treatment which I have called 
primitive Jardinage. 
On the west bank of Storm River there is—or was at 
that time—a piece of what may be described as virgin 
forest, in which operations were begun about ten years ago. 
On the east bank of that river is a patch of scrub destitute 
of timber. 
Below this is a large piece of ground in two divisions, 
which is mostly private property, and in which the Crown 
property had been denuded of timber previous to Captain 
Harrison entering on his duties as conservator of forests 
in the district. 
Continuous with this, and at the mouth of the river, is 
a patch in which wood-cutting has been actively carried 
tions, by the physical geography or general contour of the country, and by ar 
productions in the interior, with results confirmatory of the opinion that ie il 
priate remedies are irrigation, arboriculture, and an improved forest economy ; or the 
erection of dams to prevent the escape of a Py of the rainfall to the sea,—the 
abandonment or restriction of the herbage and bush in connection with pastoral and 
agricultural operations,—the conservation and extension of existing forests,—and the 
adoption of measures similar to the rébois:ment and gazonnement carried out in France. 
with.a view to prevent the formation of torrents and the destruction of property ooca.- 
sioned by them.—London : C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1876. 
