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The Florists^ Review 



March 25, 1920 



IT PAYS TO USE — 



PIA^Tir PIRP RRirV in all your boiler work. 



LLllOlll/ IIHL Unil/ll Any handy man can install it. 



Use it for patching when you cannot afford to cut a boiler out. 

 ELASTIC FIRE BRICK can be used for all fire brick purposes. 



Hoerber Bros., Geo. Wittbold Co., Miller Bros.» C. Hausermann, John Reading and Broadbeck the Florist 

 are using Elastic Lining. These are only a lew of the thousands we are selling. 



IT COMES IN BARRELS READY FOR USE. ATRIAL ORDER WILL CONVINCE YOU. 



Tel. CANAL 1013 



CURRAN & COMPANY 



1163-67 W. Twentieth Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Address Dept. 6 



house on a level and from there to the 

 southwest corner or along the south 

 side, maintaining the 12-inch incline 

 on the south side and entering the chim- 

 ney at this point. 



This would allow a bench on each 

 side and on the east end, with the flue 

 under it and out of the way. A solid 

 bed eight feet wide through the middle 

 would complete the arrangement. 



But will it work? J, T.— 111. 



Judging from the size of fire pot sug- 

 gested, it is evidently proposed to use 

 coal as fuel. Goal gas is injurious to 

 plants and if much of it is allowed to 

 escape from the fire door, as would al- 

 most be necessary, it would be fatal to 

 the plants in the house. There would 

 also be great danger that it would 

 escape from cracks in the furnace or 

 flue, which would be almost certain to 

 open. For this reason it would be in- 

 advisable to use a coal-heated flue, 

 especially one with the fire door inside 

 the greenhouse. The furnace would 

 need to be built so that cracks would 

 not be likely to occur in the outer wall 

 and the flue should be enclosed with a 

 gas-tight outer wall for a distance of 

 fifteen or twenty feet, as there would 

 otherwise be trouble from the cracking 

 of the tile. 



Serious trouble might also be ex- 

 pected from lack of draft when starting 

 the fire. The draft could be aided by 

 building a small fire pot at the base of 

 the chimney, which could be tightly 

 shut in by means of an iron door. A 

 fire built in this would soon heat the 

 air in the chimney and start a current 

 of air in the flue from the furnace. 



However, I do not recommend at- 

 tempting to heat the house described 

 by using coal and a hot-air flue. If 

 wood can be readily obtained, it would 

 be adequate to arrange the furnace and 

 flue in the manner outlined, except 

 that the furnace should be built six 

 feet long, twenty inches wide and 

 eighteen inches deep, inside measure- 

 ments, with a grate eighteen inches 

 square at the front end, opening into 

 the ash pit. Even with wood as fuel, 

 it would be well to have the fire door 

 outside the greenhouse and to take the 

 precautions already suggested in order 

 to obtain a draft and to avoid cracks 

 in the furnace and flue. 



Dubuctue, la. — A. L. Glaser's Sons ex- 

 pect to open a downtown store before 

 Easter. A standardized refrigerator and 

 other fixtures are being installed by the 

 A. L. Randall Co., Chicago. 



Pric. 



$10.00 



Plant Insurance at $10 



WHAT would happen if your night 

 man fell asleep some night in 

 zero weather? What if you should 

 oversleep, or a cold wave hit your green- 

 house when your heat is at the min- 

 imum? It would mean ruin to your 

 plants — possibly ruin to you. 



But not if you are equipped with the 

 STANDARD THERMOSTAT. The 

 Standard Thermostat protects you 

 from just such dangers. It will ring a 

 bell at your bedside when danger is near. 

 If anyone wants to know what a 

 Thermostat will do for him. tell him 

 to write me. My two nlarht tempera- 

 ture men are Thermostats and their 

 wasres is a new battery cell now and 

 then.— Wm. Hasselman, Indei>end- 

 ence, Kan., Dec. 4, 1919. 



Get one today, $10,00 



(O. H. 4, same as O. H. 8. only 

 under lock and key, $18.00.) 



STANDARD HIERNONEm CO. 



a. 1.3 



65 Shiriey Street, 



BOSTON, MASS. 



It Lets the Florist Sleep 



Let as tell you what one 

 will cost delivered at 



You don't havo to sit up and watch a 



your Rallrt^ SUUon. I GIBLIN GREENHOUSE BOILER 



UTICA, N. Y. 



WRITE NOW. 



GIBLIN & CO. 



Mentioa Tbe BctIsw when yoo write. 



TUBINCt ALL SIZES 



PIPE CUT TO SKETCH 



SECOND HAND PIPE 



Large itook, all tiui. fnrniihad with new threadi and eonplingi. 



JAMES F- GRIFFITH, ^^^^STladelphia, pa. 



PIPE 



Wronsht Iron of lonnd seoond-hand aualiU 

 with new threads and couplins, ie-f(, lencthi 

 and up. Also pine cut to sketch. We guarantee 

 entire satisfaction or return money. 



ALSO NEW PIPE AND FITTINGS 



Pfaff & KendaH,rf;.V',';f, Newark, N. J. 



S*nd for inf ormatfon about 



FISHER GREENHOUSE 



FUEL ECONOMIZERS 

 FISHER GOVERNOR CO. 



HomoOmoo— MARSHAIXTOWN. LA. 



Branches In Principal Oltlei. 







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BOILER FLUES 



We make a specialty of bandllni; 

 carefully Belected Boiler Fines. 4 

 Inches In diameter and other sizes 

 for Retnbins: Boilers. Also 

 Flues for greenhouse plplnR, etc. 



All flues are tborouffhly cleaned 

 Inside and out, trimmed and are 

 ready for use. Oeneral sales asent 

 for Stuttle's Patent Clamp and Kl- 

 bow for joining flues— no packing, 

 no leaks. New Standard Pipe and 

 all kinds of Greenhouse Fittings. 

 Klght prices and promptshlpmeot. 

 H. MDNSON 



Est. 1898 Phone SuperioF B72 

 1483 N. Wells St.. Chicago 



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