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The Florists' Review 



November 9, 1916. 



WILKS SELF-FEEDIRG HOT WATER BOII£RS 



BUILT FOR BEGINNERS 



THEY WILL NOT CRACK AND LEAK, because they are made entirely of 

 steel and have no cast iron sections, 



NO NIGHT FIREMAN REQUIRED with the Wilks Self-feeding Boilers* 



as the magazine or coal chamber holds sufficient fuel to keep fire 12 hours 

 and longer without attention. Best made for a small greenhouse. 



Write Today for Catalogue and Prices 



S. WILKS NFG. CO., 3523 Shields Ave., CHICAGO 



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Greenhouse 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 Beview to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus for you. The greenhouse beating 

 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. 



Sixteen Years' Paint Service 



Mr. Chas. H. Allen, the well-known florist of 

 Floral Park. N. Y., eays that 



DIXON'S 5',^i^tlTE PAINT 



has Riven 1(5 years of service on his hot water 

 pipes anri they are still free from rust. Write 

 for booklet No. S4 B. 



It will eive you equal Rervire. 



Made In Jersey City, N. J., by the 



Joseph Dixon Crucible Company 



ISstablished 18S7 



THE PIPING AND THE BENCHES. 



T am buildinj; a fj^reeiihouse 14x40, 

 with side walls four feet high, papered 

 and weather-boarded. The height to 

 the ridge is ten feet. The house is close- 

 ly built and is sheltered on the north. 

 I want a night temperature of 55 to GO 

 degrees. The outside temperature here 

 rarely drops below zero. I'lease tell me 

 how to arrange the pipes to heat the 

 hou.se with hot water. Also state how 

 much piping should be used, and of 

 what size. There will be three raised 

 benches. The two side benches will be 

 each tliree and one-half feet wide; the 

 middle bench will be four feet wide. 

 What is the best height for the benches. 



L. E. H.— Tenn. 



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SET YOUR BOILER RIGHT 



Wo make a specialty of all kinds of flre-brlck 

 work. No order Is too large, and the smallest order 

 receives the same careful attention. Let us call on 

 you. 



Kstlmates cheerfully furnished. 



PETER KNOWE & SON 



315 Chamber of Commerce BldR. 

 133 West Washington Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Phone Main 3766 



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 COAL CO. 



Bedford Building. CHICAGO 



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For heating a house 14x40 to 60 de- 

 grees in zero weather, with hot water, 

 we would run a 2 ^,4 -inch flow pipe 

 about two feet below the ridge and 

 .connect it at the farther end of the 

 house with six 2-inch returns, placing 

 two under each bench. To supply the 

 pipes under the middle bench, a 2-inch 

 pipe should be dropped down from the 

 main at the end of the bench. At the 

 end of the house a 2-inch supply should 

 be run to each corner of the house, for 

 the coils under the side benches. 



We would give all of the pipes a 

 slope of about an inch in ten feet, and, 

 if the expansion tank is connected with 

 the highest point in the flow pipe, air 

 valves will not be required. If possi- 

 ble, we would locate the boiler so that 

 it will be entirely below the returns. 

 If it can be in a cellar seven or eight 

 feet deep, all the better. 



W* can sav* y*u MMnay. 



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 West End Trust Building. PHILADELPHIA 



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 Kutting Building. LEBANON. PA. 



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The height of the benches should be 

 determined in some degree by the class 

 of plants to be grown. As a rule, a 

 height of twenty-four to thirty inches 

 answers well, and even a height of 

 eighteen inches is often used when there 

 is glass in the side walls. For roses we 

 would consider eighteen inches suf- 

 ficient, while for carnations we would 

 prefer a height of twenty-four inches 

 from the floor to the bottom of the 

 bench, and for low bedding or pot plants 

 thirty inches would be none too high. 



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 with new threads and coupling, 16-ft. lengths 

 and up. Also pipe cut to sketch. We guarantee 

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 the pipes should be run, and the num- 



