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The Florists' Review 



August 16, 1917. 



Sixteen Years' Paint Service 



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

 Floral Park, N. Y., says tba 



DIXON'S I'^i^^iTE ^AINT 



has jflven 16 years of service on his hot water 

 pipes and they are still free from rust. Write 

 for booklet No. 54 B. 



It will »ive you eaual service. 



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



Joseph Dixon Crucible Company 



Kstabllshed 18»7 



HIGHEST PRICED and CHEAPEST 



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GiBUN Greenhouse Boilers 



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 109 Broad Street. UTICA, N. T. 



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 Mention The Heview when you write. 



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We make a specialty of all klads of flre-brlck 

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

 receives the same careful attention. Let os call on 



yon. 



Estimates cheerfully furnished. 



PBTER KNOWE & SON 



81B Chamber of Commerce Bldg. 

 188 West Wasbinerton Street, CHICAGO. ILI<. 



Phone Mai n 37661 - Ifca 



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 Eeview to make k 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. 



TWO HOUSES, WITH SOLID BEDS. 



Please advise me about the installa- 

 tion of a heating system in my two new 

 greenhouses, each 28%xl00. I wish to 

 have most of the pipes around the walls 

 and overhead, as the beds will all be 

 solid. If I use steam, can I bring all 

 the return back from the opposite end 

 of the greenhouses through one line? 

 If so, how many 1^4 -inch pipes and 

 what size of return will be needed for 

 each house? The side walls are six feet 

 high; half of this height is glass and the 

 other half weather boarding. I wish 

 to be able to keep a temperature of 60 

 degrees. Sometimes the outside temper- 

 ature here drops to 10 degrees below 

 zero. If I install a hot water system, 

 how many 2-inch returns will be needed 

 in each house and what size of flows? 

 Which system would you recommend, hot 

 water or steam, considering the present 

 price of pipe? A. E. M. — Okla. 



So far as the arrangement of the pip- 

 ing is concerned, we can see no reason 

 why steam heat cannot be used for the 

 two houses described. For a single 

 house of this size we generally prefer a 

 hot water system, since it requires less 

 attention. For the two houses, consid- 

 ering the present cost of pipe, we would 

 suggest the use of steam. 



To heat with steam we would use, in 

 each house, one 2V2-inch overhead main 

 and fourteen l^A-inch returns, in two 

 coils on the side walls. The main flow 

 pipe should be 3-inch, unless the flow 

 pipe in each house can be readily con- 

 nected with the boiler. We would use a 

 114-inch return for each coil, and a 1^/^- 



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