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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



Ai'<;i nt 'JO. is»i>:-; 



STEAM VS. HOT WATER. 

 We would like to ask a few questions 

 through your paper, regarding a heating 

 apparatus. Which is the more economical 

 in fuel, steam or hot water? Which 

 requires the more constant attention? 

 We have five small houses, the boiler to 

 be situated in a basement under one of 

 these. The ground level of this house is 

 higher than that of the other houses. 

 Would not overhead mains to these lower 

 houses be the better? What is the 

 general opinion regarding overhead 

 mains? Is it practical to use pipe as 

 small as 1-ineh, in small houses where 

 a perfect circulation is insured providing 

 we use a 4-inch flow and many 1-ineh to 

 serve as a sort of radiator, and again 

 conducting the return in a 4-inch to the 

 boiler ? Kabee. 



The relative cost of steam or water 

 heat depends largely upon the extent and 

 arrangement of the houses to be heated. 

 Small to medium ranges of glass are 

 economically heated, considering cost of 

 fuel and labor, by water, and larger 

 ranges by steam. Steam has the ad- 

 vantage of being more subject to the in- 

 telligent control of the grower than 

 water, which is a point greatly in its 

 favor, but as additional labor is en- 

 tailed in the use of steam, the cost of 

 which per square foot of greenhouse de- 

 creases in direct proportion as the ex- 

 tent of the houses increases, it will read- 

 ily be seen that the advantage in the 

 use of steam is greater on larger ranges. 

 In the matter of fuel cost, that neces- 

 sary for water heating is greater than 

 for steam, but the cost of the extra 

 labor necessary for steam heating brings 

 the cost of both nearly to the same 

 point, with the advantage on the side of 

 steam that better control is obtained, 

 and the service of the fireman as night 

 watchman is secured without additional 

 cost for this great advantage. 



Regarding overhead mains, for water 

 their necessity or advantage is dependent 

 entirely upon the arrangement of the sev- 

 eral houses of a range with relation to 

 each other, but for steam the overhead 

 main has in general marked advantage, 

 but here again local conditions must be 

 given consideration. 



For water coils 1-inch pipes may be 

 used if the coil is short and the circu- 

 lation direct, but these conditions can 

 only be found in short houses. For 

 steam coils 1-inch pipe may be freely 

 used in houses up to 200 feet long. 



Henry W. Gibbons. 



CFOR SALE, 

 arnation Plants. 

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 23C0 MARQUIS, $4 CO rer 100 or $30 00 per 1000 

 500 GOV. ROOSEVELT, $5.00 per 100. 

 200 ADIANTTJM CUNEATUM good 3-year 

 old clumps, at $20.00 per 100. 



CHAS. SCHWEIGERT, 



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Joost 3 00 25 00 



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51 Wabash Ave,, CHICAGO. 



For gracious sake stop the chrysanthe- 

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 entire lot, and we had a pretty good 

 bunch of them. — B. P. Critchell, Cin- 

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