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i The Florists' Review 



Fbbruary 8, 1917. 



COAL 



H. H. LINEAWEAVCR & CO., Inc. 



ANTHRACITE 

 and 



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Wait End Trust Building, PHILADELPHIA 



17 Battery Place. NEW YORK 

 Nutting Building. LEBANON. PA. 

 Mentloa The Berlew wh«B yon write. 



fireenhouse 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 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. 



PIPING A SOUTHERN HOUSE. 



I wish to ask you what will be the best 

 way to pipe a greenhouse, 16x50, which 

 I am about to build here, in northern 

 Georgia. The house will run from north- 

 east to southwest. There will be a work- 

 room at the northeast end. All other 

 parts of the house, the sides and one 

 end, will be exposed to sun and wind 

 alike. I shall use a Wilks boiler, 20x30. 

 The center bed will be six feet wide 

 and the two side beds will each be three 

 feet wide. Please tell me just how to 

 pipe the house. Will one 2-inch flow 

 be enough? R. D. M. — Ga. 



We are at a loss to know what to 

 recommend in tliis case, since the in- 

 formation regarding the house and its 

 requirements is incomplete in some re- 

 spects. Provided the house is well 

 built and tlicre is no glass in the side 

 walls, we would expect to be able to 

 secure a temperature of 55 degrees, when 

 the outside temperature is 10 degrees 

 above zero, by running a 2-inch flow pipe 

 on each wall plate and connecting each 

 flow with three IVj-inch returns. For 

 60 to 63 degrees an additional return 

 will be needed for each flow, as well 

 as for each two feet of glass in each 

 wall. 



In case the top of the boiler is two 

 or three feet below the lower end of 

 the returns it would be possible to supply 

 two coils, each of which contains throe 

 l^/^-inch returns, ]iy means of a single 

 2-inch flow jiipe placed near the ridge, 

 but wo would expect a greater economy 

 in fuel and a more even distribution of 

 heat if two flows are used. 



THE HEIGHT OF THE FLOWS. 



Kindly let us know which, in your 

 opinion, is the better system of piping 

 for greenhouse heating — the overhead 

 flows, or flows just above the ground 

 level. Is there any difference in the 

 quantity of coal used with the two sys- 

 tems, to maintain a stated temperature? 



M. & C— Conn. 



The whole matter of overhead and 

 under-bench flow pipes rests largely 

 upon the fart that the higher tlie re- 

 turns above tlie heater, everything else 

 being equal; the better the circulation 

 and the more even the distribution of 

 heat. The result is a saving in the 

 amount of fuel used. From this it will 

 be seen that when the returns are sev- 

 eral feet ;ibove the top of the henter, 



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Estimates cheerfully furnished. 



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 133 West WashlDjrton Street. CHICAGO. ILL. 



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foils. Bends, Railings, etc, made to Sketch 



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WILKS SELF- FEEDING 

 HOT WATER BOILER 



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Install a WILKS 

 and forget your 

 troubles. 



No night fire- 

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 as the magazine 

 or coal chamber 

 holds sufficient 

 fuel to keep fire 

 10 to 12 hours 

 without atten- 

 tion. Best made 

 for a small 

 greenhouse. 



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 MFG. CO. 



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 CHICAGO, ILL. 



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Use Rippley's 



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In Kreenhonoes, graraKes, hogr and 

 poultry houses, small buildings. 

 Price, $42.50, frelffht paid. 

 Lonia J. L. Amonreaox, Norton 

 Mass., says: "Tour No. 200 Heater 

 cared for our green house, 75x14x9 

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