

The Florists' I^eview 



October 19, 1916. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



SuBSCRiBEBS 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 Review 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 special 

 field of its adaptation. 



SIZE OF BOILEB PORTS. 



I have a house 36x75 which I heat 

 to 52 degrees by means of a 35-horse- 

 power boiler — a hot water system. I 

 am building another house 25x30 and I 

 would like to know if the outlet and 

 inlet of the boiler, four inches each, 

 are large enough for both houses. 



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The information furnished is not 

 complete enough for us to give a posi- 

 tive answer about the size of ports 

 needed for the main flow and return 

 pipes. If there is glass in the side 

 walls, or if the new house is to be 

 used for roses, we would prefer to use 

 a 4-inch flow pipe for the larger house 

 and a 2% or 3-inch pipe for the smaller 

 one. For carnations and for other 

 plants for which the temperature need 

 Bot be more than 50 to 55, it will prob- 

 ably answer if the main for the new 

 house is taken off from the 4-inch main 

 supplying the large house, provided 

 there is only a limited amount of glass 

 in the walls of the houses. 



PIFINa TWO PABAUiEL HOUSES. 



Please give me your advice about pip- 

 ing, for hot water, the two greenhouses 

 outlined in the accompanying sketch. 

 They are six feet high to the eaves and 

 ten and one-half feet to the ridge. One 

 house is 12x68 and the other is 18x95. 

 The houses run east and west. The 

 shorter house is on the south side, with 

 the boiler house at the east end of it. 

 There are twenty-eight inches of glass 

 in the south wall and fourteen inches 

 of glass in the north wall. There is 



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no partition between the t^o houses. I 

 want a night temperature of 60 degrees. 

 I should' like to use some pipe that I 

 have on hand. I have about 1,200 feet 

 of 2-inch pipe and a small quantity of 

 1%-inch. C. G. W.— O. 



For the house 12x68 we would advise 

 the use of two 2%-inch flow pipes and 

 six 2-inch returns. One flow pipe should 

 be placed upon each of the wall plates 

 and run to the farther end of the house, 

 with a fall of one inch in fifteen feet, 

 and each flow pipe should there be con- 

 nected with three returns, arranged in 

 coils under each of the side benches. 



For the house 18x95 we would use 

 three flows and nine returns, of the same 

 sizes as in the other house and arranged 

 in the same way, except that the third 

 flow pipe should be about three feet 

 below the ridge and at the farther end 

 of the house it should drop down and 

 supply three returns placed in a coil 

 under the middle bench. Three 1%-inch 

 returns may be substituted for two 2- 

 inch returns. 



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DETACHED SWEET PEA HOUSE. 



I am building a new greenhouse, 

 16x56, fourteen feet high to the ridge 

 and eight feet to the eaves. The walls 

 will be all of glass except the lower 

 two feet, which will be wood. The 

 house will b^ well sheltered on the 

 north, west and east. It will be used 

 for sweet peas. I also have a carna- 

 tion house, 25x60, parallel with the 

 new house but separated from it by 

 an open space sixteen feet wide. I 

 use hot water heat. The houses run 

 east and west and the boiler is near 

 the east end of the older house. Can I 

 heat the sweet pea house from the 

 same boiler f There is no doubt that 

 the boiler is sufBciently large, but the 

 flow pipe would have to be run forty- 

 one feet south in a box and fifty-four 

 feet west in the greenhouse; then the 



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