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Thc Florists' Review 



NOVEMBEB 2, 1916. 



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Established 1857 



Telephone Yards 866 



WILKS 



Self-feeding Hot Water Boilers 



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are built to fill the requirements of the florist having 

 3000 sq. ft. or less of glass. Constructed of the best 

 quality steel, strongly riveted and calked, with no 

 cast-iron sections to crack or leak, they will give thes '^ 

 most perfect service possible. >-_ :. v.. 



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S. WILKS MANUFACTURING CO. 



3523 Shields Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 



Mention Tbe Reriew wben you writr. 



Creenhonse Heating. 



SuBsosiBiEBS 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 special 

 field of its adaptation. 



PlPma MIGHT BE niPBOVED. 



As I am a beginner and am building, 

 I shall be greatly obliged for any in- 

 formation you can give me in regard to 

 piping for hot water, I have already 

 piped some of my greenhouses, but if 

 any change is necessary I shall be glad 

 to have it looked after. I have three 

 houses^ one of them 10x75 and the other 

 two each 22x82. In one of the large 

 houses there is no side glass; the other 

 has two feet of side glass. 



I have a Moninger sectional boiler, 

 series 27, tapped for two 4-inch flows 

 and two 4-inch returns. The boiler is 

 at the east end of the greenhouses. A 

 6-inch flow pipe runs across the base of 

 the two large houses. This 6-inch line 

 is connected in each of the two houses 

 with four 2-inch flows that run up each 

 aisle, and each one returns with two 

 2-inch pipes and empties into a 6-inch 

 return at the bottom. In the small 

 house the 4-inch main is connected 

 with two 2-inch flows that feed five 2- 

 inch pipes, and these return with five 

 2-inch pipes and empty into a 4-inch 

 main return. In this small house last 

 winter the heating was perfect. Do 

 you think that four 2-inch fiow pipes 

 in each of the other houses will be 

 enough? Do you think the boiler is big 

 enough f I wish to maintain a night 

 temperature of about 50 degrees. 



M. N.— Pa. 



It is stated that in each of the large 

 houses there are "four 2-ineh flows and 

 each one returns with two 2-inch 

 pipes." If there are two returns for 

 each flow, there would be twelve 2-inch 

 pipes in each house. We would con- 



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— I ^^ Rto.Td discussion of the boiler and condensation question from the prao- — 



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NTCflELL & DILLON 

 COAL CO. 



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sider this ample radiation for a 22- 

 foot house for which 50 degrees is de- 

 sired. In fact, if properly arranged, 

 ten pipes would answer. "We would 

 prefer, however, to use three 2i^-inch 

 flows and seven 2-inch returns, or two 

 2%-inch flows and eight returns. 



As we understand the piping in the 

 other house, there are five 2-inch flows 

 and five returns. This is considerably 

 more than is needed for 50 degrees. We 

 would not think it necessary to use more 

 than three flows and four returns, and, 

 if we were to use the number and size 

 of pipes considered most advisable, 

 only two 21^-inch flows and four 2-inch 

 returns would be put in for a house of 

 this size. 



While we would prefer to use 2%- 

 inch flow pipes in houses eighty-twO 



PIPE 



Wrought Iron of sound second-hand Quality 

 with new threads and coupling, le-ft. lengths 

 and up. Also pipe cut to sketch. We guarantee 

 entire satisfaction or return money. 

 EsUblished 1902. 



PFAIT t KENDALL, Tmiq St.. Newiij H. J. 



Pipe and Tubes 



Philaddphia Second Hand Pipe Supply 



1003 N. Till SL. PHIUDELPHIA. PA. 



Mr. Allen says : 

 "I used Dlxon'8 Silica-Graphite Paint 



on hot water pipes 16 years »ko. The pipes 

 are still free from rust. It Is by far the most 

 serviceable paint for the purpose."— C. H. 

 Allen, Florist, Floral Park, N. Y. 



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Joseph Dixon Crncible Company, 



Jersey City, N. J. 



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feet in length, we would expect good 

 results from four 2-inch flows. A boiler 

 rated at 2,000 square feet of hot water 

 radiation should be amply large for 

 the handling of the three houses de- 

 scribed. 



HEAT FOE FLORIST'S RESIDENCE. 



I want to convey hot water heat to 

 my dwelling house, which is 130 feet 

 from the greenhouse boiler, and I should 



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