JARDINAGE. 99 
Yet the system has its advantages, in view of certain 
results which may be sought. It is not am le of exploita- 
tion producing in all places and in all circumstances 
unmixed evil—evil, only evil, and that contiaually. The 
object I have set before me in sitting down to prepare the 
following report is not to condemn Jardinage, neither is it 
to commend or to justify it, but to supply information in 
regard to its details as carried out in the North of Russia, 
leaving to my readers to make what use they may desire, 
or be able to effect of the information given. 
The object aimed at by the most advanced forest man- 
agement of the day is to secure by the operations adopted 
a sustained production of wood, a progressive amelioratiou 
of the condition of the forests, and a continuous material 
reproduction of the woods; and this is called for in Germany 
and in France. 
But there are cases in which a great quantity of wood is 
suddenly called for—cases in which a continuous supply 
of fuel or small wood for other purposes is desired—and 
cases in which the production of wood of a given bulk ata 
period more or less remote is required. The treatment 
given to a forest must be different in each of these cases. 
There are also cases in which it is not wood, but the 
money for which wood may be sold, that is wanted—money 
coming in in instalments over a period more or less pro- 
tracted, or money required at once ; and measures must be . 
adopted accordingly. 
Again there are cases in which it is amenity and shelter, 
or a covert for game, irrespective, it may he, of all besides, 
or it may be along with one or more of the objects speci- 
fied; and again this must determine the course of action 
followed, 
And yet again it may be none of all these things which 
is desired, but the ground upon which the forest grows 
which is wanted for horticultural or agricultural purposes— 
or the clearing away of the forest for climatic effect, has 
been resolved on; and again a particular course of action 
