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The Florists^ Review 



March 29, 1917. 



n. H. UNEAWEAVn & CO.. Inc. 



HTUMINOUS %^ %# ^^ ■■ 

 Wui End Trust Buildiac. PHILADBLPHIA 



17 Battonr Place. NBW TORE 



Natttnc Boildins. LEBANON. PA. 



Mention The BcTlew when yon write. 



Creenhonse Heating. 



SuBSORiBXRS are invited to write th* 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Beview to msike 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. 



UP GOES THE FREIGHT. 



Growers in the cities where Poca- 

 hontas and New Eiver smokeless coals 

 are used are threatened with a further 

 increase in the price of fuel. Declaring 

 that the railroads of the country are 

 facing a most serious situation by rea- 

 son of greatly increased costs of opera- 

 tion and rapidly declining net earnings, 

 a delegation of the presidents of the 

 seven principal carriers of bitiiminous 

 coal from the West Virginia fields ap- 

 peared before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission March 22 and asked ap- 

 proval of advances in freight rates. 



The proposed advances would affect 

 shipments to the Atlantic seaboard and 

 the lake ports. The tariffs which have 

 been filed provide for increases of 5 

 cents a ton to Hampton roads and New- 

 port, 10 cents a ton to Baltimore, Phila- 

 delphia and New York, and 15 cents a 

 ton to the lake ports. 



Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad system, acted as spokes- 

 man for the railroad executives. Rea- 

 sons cited by him to show the immediate 

 necessity for higher rates on coal and 

 other freight included the advanced cost 

 of materials and fuel, the Supreme court 

 decision on the Adamson Wage Act, the 

 scarcity, high price and inefficiency of 

 labor in general, and the constant in- 

 creases in taxes. Advances in fuel 

 prices alone, Mr. Rea said, will involve 

 an added cost of at least $37,000,000 a 

 year to the seven railroads represented. 



STOCK WAS NEAELY FROZEN. 



Kindly give mo ^our expert advice 

 as to the best way of remedying the 

 faults in the piping of my greenhouse. I 

 had a steamfitter on the job, and I sus- 

 pect he was thinking of steam instead of 

 hot water. The greenhouse is 22x90 and 

 twelve feet high to the ridge. The side 

 walls are five feet high and the south 

 wall contains two feet of glass. The 

 house is well protected. I have a Wilks 

 boiler, 36x48, with two 3-inch open- 

 ings, from which are run two 2V^-inch 

 flows, which slope slightly upward in 

 the greenhouse, so that the highest point 

 is at the farther end from the boiler. 



One flow feeds the coils at the north 

 wall and under the center bench. The 

 other flow feeds the coil under the south 

 bench and the piping in a small store, 

 16x18 and ten feet high to the ceiling, 

 in front of the grponhonso. The store 

 is piped for about scvonty five square 



DEPENDABLE «^ 

 GREENHOUSE 

 HEATING 



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 an even and steady supply of heat, insurin^^ the most perfect 

 gTovrlng conditions at all times. 



KROESCHELL BOILERS 



have a larger proportion of direct fire surface than any other 

 boiler, and are known as the quickest hot-water heaters and 

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 kind of fuel. 



THE WORLD'S SUPREME GREENHOUSE BOILER RECORD 



Our company takes pride in announcing that the year just closed 

 goes on record as the world's highest mark in the sales of greenhouse 

 boilers. During the year of 1916 we sold direct from factory to user the 

 following boilers for greenhouse heating : 



Kroeschell Greenhouse Hot Water Boilers 1,639,500 sq. ft. glass 



Kroeschell Tube] ess Hot Water Boilers 104,860 sq. ft. glass 



Kroeschell Tubeless Steam Boilers 65,400 sq. ft. glass 



Kroeschell Water Tube Steam Boilers 203,200 sq. ft. glass 



Kroeschell High pressure Steam Boilers 1,003.336 sq. ft. glass 



Total 3,016,286 sq. ft. glass 



THE REWARD OF MERIT 



The Kroeschell is used by the leading florists in this section of the country, and 

 mighty is their praise. The Kroeschell is making the most wonderful greenhouse 

 beating record in St. Louis. We invite you to call on our customers and will be 

 pleased to have you put the question point-blank : "What do you think of the Kroe- 

 schell and why have you ordered same again and again ? " 



RECENTIINSTALLATIONS IN THE ST. LOUIS COUNTY 



Wensel & Hecht 



No. 8 Boiler 



George Hecht 



No. 4 Boiler 



Henry J. Kettmann 



No. 4 Boiler 



W. A. Rowe 



No. 7 Boiler 

 No. 4 Boiler 



Robert Wolf sberger 



No. 3 Boiler 



Chas. B. Blecckert 



No. 9 Boiler 



Albert Seng er 



No. 9 Boiler 



C. Young & Son 



No. 9 Boiler 



Henry Meier 



No. 9 Boiler 



John Hecht 



No. 4 Boiler 



Paul Scheider 



No. 8 Boiler 



Jacob A. Kropp 



No. 6 Boiler 



A. S. Cemy 



No. 35 Boiler 

 No. 11 Boiler 



B. Albert 



No. 4 Boiler 



Oakland Floral Co. 



No. 4 Boiler 

 No. 6 Boiler 



Kalisch Bros. Floral 

 Company 



No. 4 Boiler 



H. W. GroM 



No. 6 Boiler 



Charles Meier 



No. 9 Boiler 

 No. 12 Boiler 



Alexander Floral Co. 



No. 7 Boiler 



John J. Wnnderle 



No. 7 Boiler 



Alois F. Kopp 



No. 11 Boiler 



W. J. PUcher 



No. 3 Boiler 

 No. 13 Boiler 

 No. 46 Steam Boiler 



Emmett McDonald 



No. 4 Boiler 



St. Louis South- 

 western Ry. Co. 



No. 1 Boiler 



MaryiM. Scott& Son 



No. 4 Boiler 



Adolph Fnchs 



No. 6 Boiler 



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