SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
When one finds that they are themselves turning to pisé as an 
alternative to the: use of their gravely reduced timber stocks, one is 
tempted to rebuke the optimists not so much for barking up the 
wrong tree as for attempting to climb one that is not there. 
PISE WALL, 
Quo! WuuaNs eu m. 
SCALE OF FEET ARCHITECT 
t 19 QUEEN ANNGS CATE .SW 
PISE COTTAGE AT NEWLANDS CORNER, SURREY. 
Clough Williams-Ellis, Architect. _ 
_ Certain paragraphs in the press appear to have given the impres- 
sion in some quarters that there was a sort of secret or patent about 
pisé. There is, of course, nothing of the sort; it is, indeed, the simplest 
of all methods of building, and at least thirty centuries old. ri 
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