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regards direct financial profit, a supply of timber or fire- 

 wood, which is much required, improving the soil, and 

 rendering it fit for cultivation \\dth cereals, and ameliora- 

 ting the climate. The Nelamber tea plantations, in 

 Madras Presidency, cover 3000 acres, the oldest portion 

 having been planted thirty years ago. The total expendi- 

 ture, including purchase and lease of some 19,000 acres of 

 land from a native raja, has been £30,000, and the receipts 

 from thinnings &c., £10,000. These plantations were 

 valued last year at minimum rates at £150,000, and Col. 

 Pearson, lately officiating as Inspector-General of Forests 

 in India, estimated their value, when mature, at no less 

 than two millions sterling.' 



Conclusion. 



It may be that some of my readers, and others who 

 have not read, but only glanced at the preceding pages, 

 may be ready to say, — This is not the kind of Introduc- 

 tion to the Study of Modern Forest Economy which we 

 expected; and it may be so. Disappointment may be 

 expressed and felt that little or nothing has been said 

 about sowing, and transplanting, and pruning, and thin- 

 ning, and felling, and cutting; up, and transplanting, and 

 selling, and the economic appUcations which are made of 

 forest products. Such is the case ; and one very simple 

 reason for this may suggest itself: These operations, 

 •though carefully studied and treated of in the Modem 

 Forest Science upon which Modern Forest Economy is 

 based, are by no means peculiar to this ; they pertain to 

 Arboriculture as well as to Sylviculture ; there is no lack 

 of information in regard to all of them in volumes appro- 

 priated to the special discussion of them, and it is not an 

 exclusively Arboricultural Exhibition to which those for 

 whom this volume has been prepared have been invited ; 

 but an International Forestry Exhibition, and in view of this 

 it has been prepared. Therefore have the subjects treated 

 of been brought under consideration, and not those others 



