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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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omi)letely cut or sawn down, the pro-truding .stumps were trimmed and the exudation of the sap was prevented byclay or cement dressings, while branches from the ui)per portion of the treeswhich showed signs of life activity were grafted on many of the severedstumiijs. Today, we learn, these grafts are in full leaf and blos.som. Theroots a))pear to have been entirely saved by this process, and years have i)ceiisaved in restoring the cut-down orchards of l-rance. Tree surgery is nonew art, and for several years, particularly in .\merica, the practice of pre-serving trees that have been injured by disease or accident has been success-fully carried out by tilling stumps with cement. Jhc i)rotection of severalvegetable tissues with wax, tar and other substances has been long usetl inhorticulture and arlioricnlture. The principles governing tile surgery ofplants are, in many respects, similar to those which appertain to human sur-gery.—Municipal l-ngineering. 78 THE ARCHITECT AND EXGLXEER
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GLASS FRONT BUILDING. LEHISTOIVN. MONTANAWasmotisdorff & Etislman. Ardihccfs Says Glass Front Buildings are Not New LF.wisriiwx. :\r(i\T.. July 27. 1917.Editor Tlic Architect and Kn<;inecr of California: ) have read with interest your article on a rnique Gla.ss Front Buildingfor San Francisco. in which you state that it remained for San Franci.sco topresent art innovation after Paris. \ienna. etc.. have tried to tjive expressionto this new form of construction. I am enclosinsf a poor photofjraph of a huildins built in 1913 and com-pleted in the sprint;; of 1914 l)y us, in which we set the columns back 9 feetand cantilevered all of the floors out to the front, giving us a complete glassfront without a column of any kind obstructing the show window space. Thebuilding is intended for a six-story reinforced concrete structure, three storiesand a mezzanine being included in the present building. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 79 This was some years ago and I do not know that we are the

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