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The Florists' Review 



APRIL 20, 1916. 



ror 



COAL 



write to 



COAL 



MITCHELL & DILLON 

 COAL CO. 



Bedford Buildini, CHICAGO 



W« can sav* y»u w pay. 



H. H. LINEAWEAVBt & CO., Inc. 



ANTHRACITC 



and 

 BITUMlMOUS 



West lad Trust Building. PHILADELPHIA 



17 Battery Place. NEW YORK 



NuttiBC Buildiag. LEBANON, PA. 



Mwitlaa The ReWew whea yon wrtte. 



^reenhoase Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of, greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 'ask The Beview to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus for you. The greenhouse heating 

 equipment advertised in this paper is, we 

 believe, the best for the trade to buy, 

 and each article the best in the ■peeial 

 field of itf adaptation. 



IS OEEENHOUSE A FACTORY? 



Our greenhouses are situated in one 

 of the largest gas fields in the country. 

 We are compelled to pay the regular 

 consumers ' rate for the natur^ gas con- 

 sumed in oij> ftreMhqu8e8.vtlie monthly 

 bill Smounmig to •more tMb """ ~' 



ate 1 



is a manufacturers' ra' 



. ._ There 

 that would 



cost us one-fifth of this amount, but 

 the gas company and its attorneys con- 

 tend that a. greenhouse range does not 

 come under the head of manufacturing 

 plants and that therefore we are not 

 entitled to the manufacturers' rate. 

 What we are driving at is this: Can 

 not you or one of your readers refer 

 us to a decision of a state or supreme 

 court in which a greenhouse was held 

 to be a manufacturing plant f With 

 such a weapon we may be able to bring 

 the gas company to terms. 



M. F. C— La. 



It seems to The Keview the way to 

 get action is for you to inform the gas 

 company that unless you get the rate 

 you want you will heat with some other 

 fuel. If there is a profit to the gas 

 company in the rate you demand, you 

 will get it; otherwise the company will 

 continue to refuse, and you cannot ex- 

 pect it to sell at a loss to you just be- 

 cause it may do so in some other case. 

 In this case, of course, a court decision 

 in which a greenhouse was found to be 

 a manufactory would be an excellent 

 argument for you. Any information 

 from readers in this regard would be 

 appreciated. 



FAVORS OIL AS FUEL. 



In The Review for March 2 there 

 appeared a letter by William Hosteller 

 concerning the use of fuel oil in green- 

 house heating, in which Mr. Mosteller 

 advised the inquirer as follows: 



"You cannot burn fuel oil under a 

 not water boiler unless you have a 

 small steam boiler, fired with wood or 

 coal, to carry a pressure of twenty 

 pounds or more. This you would con- 

 nect to the oil burner to operate it. 



WHICH DO YOU WANT? 



Cast Iron BoUara— VOOL Koonomy (false ratings, fuel waste, danger of breakdowns, 



dealers' profits): O B— 

 Kroeiohall Bollars- FITKLi Boonomy (honest ratings, safety, quick heat, no boiler pits. 



no dealers' profits). 



K'rO'^ green H0U5E 

 ^^^ BOILER 



SO. 



^"^ £0f> HOT V^^ 



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j^ROESOHELL BROS. COt, 444 W. Erie St., CHICAGO 



Mention Tbe Kerlew wben you write. 



Pipe Fittings » Imico Boiiers 



-rOB GRUNUOUWB WOBK- 



ILLINOIS MALLEABLE IRON CO. 



1801-1825 DIYBBSET BOULEVARD CHICXAGO 



Mwitlon Tho Herlir when yon write. 



Full Weight Wrought Iron 

 and Spollorlzed Steel Pipe 



Coils, Bends, Railings, etc, made to Sketch 



FORD & KENDIG CO. 



87 North 7th Street piin AnPI PIIIA 



S4th and Wood Streets riliLfUILLrnUl 



Mention The ReTtew wben yon write. 



but even at that your fire would be 

 much too hot. There are some burners 

 on the market designed for burning 

 distillate, both with and without air 

 pressure, that are, to a certain extent, 

 satisfactory, but distillate is too ex- 

 pensive in most cases to use for fuel. 



"I would advise you to let oil alone 

 unless you have 8,000 or 10,000 feet of 

 glass, and install a horizontal return- 

 flue high-pressure steam boiler. Fuel 

 oil cannot be burned successfully with 

 less than twenty pounds pressure. You 

 would be obliged to make your own 

 burner, as there is none on the market 

 that would operate with so small a 

 flow of oil as is needed in this case. 

 Fifty gallons of oil, properly handled, 

 will easily keep 5,000 feet of glass hot 

 in zero weather for twenty-four 

 hours. ' ' 



Now, I would like to give the cir- 

 cumstances under which we success- 



Dixon'8 Graphite 

 Plpa Joint Compound 



Saves time, money, temper 

 and toolu. Makes tighter 

 Joints. Never sete like a 

 cement. Koepe Joints well 

 lubricated. Send tor book- 

 let No. M-D. 



Jeteph DixM Cradkle CtMMay 

 Jersey City, N. J. 



Mention The Rerlew when yog write. 



fully and economically use crude oil 

 as fuel. We burn the oil under a No. 

 646 Lord & Burnham hot water boiler, 

 and it certainly works perfectly. We 

 use an electric motor in connection with 

 a positive pressure blower and oil 

 pump, maintaining a pressure of 

 about thirty-two pounds on the air 

 blower. We "find that one barrel of 

 oil will heat 6,000 square feet of glass 

 during zero weather for fifty hours. 

 The boilers are for hot water heating 

 and we experience no difficulty in main- 

 taining a steady temperature at all 

 times. The burner will burn until it 

 is shut down, and we can regulate the 

 fire and, therefore, the temperature at 

 will. We think, therefore, that Mr. 

 Mosteller is wrong in some of his state- 

 ments. 



During the winter of 1914-1915 we 

 used coal and coke as fuel, but last 



