October 30, 1919. 



The Florists* Review 



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WILKS SELF-TEEDING 

 HOT WATER BOILER 



for Economy, Durability, Dependability 



Install a WILKS 

 and forget your 

 troubles. 



No night fire- 

 man required— 

 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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 I and Prices 



Telephone 

 Yards 866 



S. WILKS 

 MFG. CO. 



3523 Shields Ave.. 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



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der the benches or on the side walls, 

 keeping them as high as possible and 

 giving each pipe a slight fall towards 

 the boiler. 



HEATING FOUR HOUSES. 



Please tell mo what size of steam 

 boiler it would take to heat four houses, 

 25x200 feet, with 7-foot gutters and six 

 feet of glass in the side walls, to a tem- 

 perature of 60 degrees at zero. How 

 much radiation will it need and what 

 size should the coils be? For this size 

 of boiler, what size and what height of 



A Uniform 

 Temperature 



means better flow- 

 ers—more naturally 

 ■Town. The More- 

 head System main- 

 tains an even, con- 

 sistent temperature 

 throughout your grow- 

 ing houses by elimi- 

 nating sluggish circu- 

 lation and delivering 

 every drop of the 

 condensation, which 

 is now allowed to clog 

 up your steam lines, 

 directly back to the 

 boiler while it is hot. 

 You not only get 

 better flowers, but you 

 also save a large per 

 cent of your fuel. 



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Stop that Slug- I 

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 in Your Steam Lines! 



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Big representative concerns like the Minneapolis 

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 Pittsburgh Floral Company, etc., etc., now drain 

 their steam lines and return the pure hot conden- 

 sation immediately to the boilers as feed vrater 

 vrith the Morehead System. 



Quickly and easily attached ts your present appar- 

 atus, the Morehead System gives you absolute con- 

 trol of the temperature in every foot of your houses 

 —and soon pays for itself in the saving of fuel. 

 Tell us about your present heating troubles— our 

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 actly what you may expect the Morehead System 

 to do for you— and send you a book which covers 

 the greenhouse steam plant situation thoroughly. 



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Detroit, - Michigan 



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stack should be used? The base, or floor, 

 of the boiler will be only thirty inches 

 below the floor of the greenhouses. Will 

 a steam trap be necessary? 



L. k. M.— Pa. 



The letter does not state whether all 

 of the houses have two side walls ex- 

 posed, or if they are connected and only 

 two of them have one wall each ex- 

 posed. This will make considerable dif- 



ference in determining the size of the 

 boiler and the amount of radiation re- 

 quired in the houses. 



In case all of the houses have exposed 

 side walls, I should advise the use of a 

 boiler rated at 75 horsepower, while, if 

 they are connected, a boiler of 60 horse- 

 power would answer. For the larger size 

 of boiler we should use a grate with 

 about twenty-five square feet of sur- 

 face, while the smaller one will require 



