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82 



The Florists' Review 



August 3. 1916. 



HOW ABOUT THAT NEW BOILER? 



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are made of the best quality of steel, strongly riveted and calked, with 

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 a plan for heating a model greenhouse. 



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upon each side wall or under the side 

 benches, or tiiree may be under the side 

 benches and the others under the mid- 

 dle benches. In the other house eight 2- 

 inch returns and one 2%-inch overhead 

 flow will give a temperature of 50 to 

 55 degrees. Unless it is possible to' sink 

 the boiler so that it will be as low as 

 the level of the walks in that house, 

 the coils should be kept as high as 

 possible. 



STEAM FOR THREE HOUSES. 



We are sending you a sketch of a 

 range of three parallel greenhouses, 

 running east and west, and we wish 

 you to tell us about our requirements 

 in the way of heat. The center house 

 is for roses, except the rear end, 27x30, 

 which will be used for lilies, etc., with 

 a temperature of 65 degrees or what- 

 ever is needed. The south house is to 

 be piped for carnations, geraniums, etc., 

 and will require a temperature of 50 

 to 65 degrees. The north house will be 

 used for the same crops, except that 

 we wish to add a ground bench for 

 sweet peas, smilax, plumosus, snap- 

 dragons, etc. As we are trying roses 

 for the first time, you will know better 

 than we what temperature we should 

 maintain for them. The outside tem- 

 perature here may be as low as 10 

 degrees below zero for a day or two 

 at a time. 



Our present boiler is of the locomo- 

 tive type and is supposed to be 16- 

 horsepower. It has fifty-six 2-inch 

 flues, six feet long, and the firebox is 

 32x38 inches. The floor of the boiler 

 pit is eight feet below the floor of the 

 greenhouses. We wish to use steam 

 heat. If we add another boiler of equal 

 size, will the two, fired together, give 

 us enough heat? If that plan will not 

 work and it is necessary to discard the 

 present boiler, what should be the 

 rating of the new onef The present 

 boiler heated satisfactorily a house 

 25x100 and another 14x60, with hot 

 water. Be so kind as to tell us the 

 right size and number of flows and re- 

 turns, and Vhere they should be placed. 



F. G. Y.— Neb. 



The sketch shows the south house to 

 be 25x100, with three feet of glass in 





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the south wall. The middle house is 

 27x90. The north house also is 27x90, 

 with a board wall on the north. The 

 boiler house and workroom are at the 

 west end of the two north houses. 



We would use 2-inch overhead flow 

 pipes in the north and south houses, 



Stop that 



pipe leak per- 

 manently— 

 cheaply— use 

 Emergency 

 Pipe Clamps. 



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placing them three feet below the 

 ridge, and a 2i^-inch flow pipe in the 



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