hs MODEM FOREST ECONOM'y. 



allusion to the practice of the gardener in gathering 

 vegetables, taking up what seems to him to be sufficiently 

 grown, and leaving others to grow till they may be 

 required. 



Jardinage, as thus explained, is a method of exploitation 

 which may seem to be a very natural one to adopt ; and 

 this supposition is borne out by the extent to which it has 

 been adopted. But it has proved very destructive to 

 forests in all lands, and in all times. The careful considera- 

 tion of other things than merely making the most of the 

 woods as a source of pecuniary supplies, with which this 

 method of operation is followed by British foresters in 

 woods and plantations under their charge, such things as 

 the appearance presented by the woods as a contribution 

 to the amenity of the locality, and the value put upon the 

 shelter which they afiford, these having often a value far 

 beyond what may be represented by the price of the wood 

 in the market, leads to its being practised in parks and 

 policies in Britain in such a way that little, or, it may be, 

 no damage is done to the plantations. But where it has 

 been followed simply as a means of most easily and con- 

 viently exploiting the trees of a forest as supplying an 

 article of trade, it has generally proved destructive. 



Illustrations of the destructive effect upon forests of 

 - this method of exploitation may be found in Hydi-ology of 

 South Africa, pp. 172-175 ; in Forests and Forestry of 

 Northern Russia, pp. 89-100; and in the French Forest 

 Ordinance of 1669, vnih Historical Sketch of Previous Treatment 

 of Forests in France, pp. 35-39. 



Section C, — Exploitation according to ' La Methode 

 A Tire et Aire.' 



I have had occasion elsewhere to quote a statement 

 by MM. Lorentz and Parade, fathers of the School of 

 Forestry in Nancy, that : — 



' Towards the middle of the seventeenth century, if not 



