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The Florists' Review 



December 25. 1919. 



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IT PAYS TO USE- 

 PI A^Tir FIRP RRirV in all your boiler work. 



LLflJlll/ IIIIL imil/II 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. Hansermann, John Reading and Broadbeck the Florict 

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



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



TeL CANAL 1013 



CURRAN & COMPANY 



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



Address Dept. 6 



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a license is only required where con- 

 siderable steam pressure is carried, mak- 

 ing it unnecessary to have a license for 

 ordinary heating boilers where a low- 

 pressure system is used. At any rate, 

 the boiler need not be over thirty horse- 

 power in this case, unless to be used for 

 more than two houses. We would sug- 

 gest a letter to the secretary of state, 

 Columbus, asking what the requirement 

 is. 



PIPING FOB HOTBED. 



We have three greenhouses, each 

 V 25x75, and on the south side have built 

 a hotbed, 12x75 feet, using hotbed 

 sashes for the roof and 12-inch sides 

 made of 2-inch planks and banked with 

 earth. We wish to heat it with pipe 

 from the greenhouse, taking off a 1%- 

 inch pipe from the main at the far end 

 of the house and using this to feed the 

 •: coils in the hotbed. The bed we want 

 : to keep suitable for lettuce and hardy 

 . plants, simply keeping out the frost in 

 zero weather or less. It seldom gets 

 colder than 15 degrees below zero and 

 then only for a short time. The houses 

 are well protected by hills on each side. 

 I have two small hot water boilers, a 

 Boynton No. 70, ser. B, and a Giblin No. 

 70, ser. 100. Each house has two 2%- 

 inch mains and they are used as lettuce 

 houses. To keep them at 60 degrees in 

 cloudy weather, it is necessary to keep 

 the water in the boilers at 150 degrees 

 when the outdoor temperature is 20 de- 

 grees above zero. We have planned to 

 use one 2-inch pipe in each side of the 

 bed and three lV4-inch pipes in the cen- 

 ter of the bed. Would this be enough! 

 Shall we have enough boiler capacity! 

 We have a No. 3 mercury generator 

 with this system and probably enough 

 coils in each house, but as we have 

 never run these in severe weather we 

 should like your advice before putting 

 in extra piping for the bed. 



S. & W.— Mo. 



I have not the catalogues of the Gib- 

 lin and Boynton boilers at hand and do 

 not recall the ratings of the different 

 sizes. To heat the three houses and a 

 hotbed 12x75 feet, it would be best to 

 use two boilers rated at about 1,200 

 square feet of hot water radiation each. 

 Ono of these will heat the houses and 

 hotbed in mild weather. 



The piping suggested for the hotbed 

 will be practically correct so far as the 

 amount of radiation is concerned, but 

 it would be preferable to use either five 

 1^-inch or four 2-inch returns. 



Heat 

 Bulletin 



BernhardBouers 



produce the maximum 

 of efficiency with the 

 minimum of fuel. 



Scienti fically constructed 

 —correct in principle. 



"THE BOILER WITH THE 



LOW WATER LIRE" 



Catalogue "I" fully descrip- 

 tive. Sent on request. 



101 PirkAvc, 

 New Ytrfc Gly 



KANAWHA MFG. COMPANY 



175 WMt JackaoD Blvd.. CHICAGO. ILL. 



CiMrlestos, 

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If Lets the Florist Sleep 



You don't havo to sit up and watch a 



Liet us tell you what one 



7^^r '^gTi.rgl^'^Vttl.oS! I GIBLIN GREENHOUSE BOILER 



WRITE NOW. 



GIBLIN & CO. 



UTICA, N. Y. 



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TUBING, ALL SIZES 



PIPE CUT TO SKETCB 



SECOND HAND PIPE 



Large itook, all liiM, fnrniihad with new threado and eonplinge* 



416-24 Moirar Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, 



ICentloB Thm Berlew when jmi write. 



JAMES F. GRIFFITH, 



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BOILER FLUES 



We make a specialty of handling 

 carefully selected Boiler Fluen. 4 

 Inches in diameter and other sizes 

 for RetabinK Boilers. Also 

 Flues for greenhouse piping, etc. 



All flues are thoroughlv cleaned 

 Inside and out, trimmed and are 

 ready for use. QeneralsnleH agent 

 for Siuttle's Putent Clamp and El- 

 bow for joining flues — no paclclng, 

 DO leaks. New Standaid Pipe and 

 all kinds of Greenhouse Fittings. 

 Right prices and promptshipmeot. 

 H. MDNSON 



Est. 1898 Phone Superior 672 

 1488 M. Wells St., Ohloaso 



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