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July 31, 1913. 



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HODSTON=;r.r,Ti;i COALS 



ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO FLORISTS' USE 



The high standard of Houston Quality, Houston Preparation and Houston 

 Service has made these coals Famous in the Greenhouse and Florist Trade. 



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Seaboard Bank BMs., Norfolk, Va, 



KUPER HOOD. Qen'l Sales Agt. old Colony Bide. CIiiS'ko*"' *R."o.*Cantelou. Western Mgr. W. W. Houston. Southern Mgr. 



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Q The unqualified favorite of leading florists for twenty years. 



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C A blocky splint coal. Intense, uniform and lasting heat. Minimum impurities. 



C a lower freight rate than Pocahontas. A trial car brings a permanent customer. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse beating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Beview to make a 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. 



SMOKELESS COAL AT OHIOAGO. 



"Undoubtedly, the center of interest 

 at the minute is smokeless coal," says 

 the Black Diamond's Chicago letter. 

 "That situation has been tight all sum- 

 mer, and promises now to grow tighter. 

 At least the coal men are showing a de- 

 cided interest in its future. Summed 

 up, the situation is about as follows: 

 The amount of contracting in Chicago 

 is not up to what it was last year, and 

 shipments to the spot market have been 

 considerably less. As a consequence, 

 Chicago has not the same amount of 

 smokeless on hand it had last year, but, 

 on the contrary, it has less. The flat- 

 building trade, which is growing all the 

 time, has been buying more and has 

 been taking in its coal early. That 

 makes in Chicago and the west a bigger 

 market for coal than ever before. It 

 can be said truly that the supply is less 

 than the demand. This is dictating a 

 circular price of $1.40 on the nrinc-rnn 

 coal, with premiums on some spot, stuff 

 running $1.50 or even up to $1.60 in 

 rare instances. Lake shipments in ton- 

 nage are about what they were last 

 year, but as compared with the buying 



Toiophona Control 14 



Mines on B. & 0. R. R. 



Kotabllohod 1S87 



Kelly, W. Va., Smokeless Coal 



MINE RUN-IDEAL COAL FOR FLORISTS 



Delivered Prices Furnished upon Application 



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BITUMINOUS COAL 



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Mention The B«t1cw wifn yoo write. 



they are behind. This indicates a good, 

 steady market for the next two or three 

 months, at least, or until the car short- 

 age scare is over. What the situation 

 will be after that remains a baffling 

 mystery. The best guessers on the mar- 

 ket express the belief that the weather 

 alone will determine both supply and 

 price. ' ' '_ 



BOILEBS aOINO TO ENGLAND. 



Since American methods of green- 

 house construction have been adopted in 

 Europe a great deal of American green- 

 house equipment has been exported, 

 especially ventilating apparatus. At 

 Chicago two boilers are under construc- 

 tion at the works of the Kroeschell 

 Bros. Co., to go to England to be used 

 in the new central hot water heating 

 system of forced circulation for Lowe 

 & Shawyer, Uxbridge, Middlesex. Each 

 boiler measures sixty inches in width, 

 fifty inches in height, and sixteen feet 

 in length. The boilers will be built com- 



plete at the Kroeschell factory and will 

 be loaded on freight cars which can be 

 placed alongside the ocean steamer. The 

 shipping weight of these No. 14 boilers 

 is in the neighborhood of 14,000 pounds 

 each iand it will be interesting to note 

 that the freight from Chicago to London 

 is less than the freight from Chicago to 

 the Pacific coast. The capacity is 12,000 

 lineal feet of 4-inch pipe, in addition to 

 the mains, or five and one-quarter miles 

 of 1^-inch pipe for hot water heating. 



QBEENHOUSE AND HOTBED. 



I have built a greenhouse 20x55 and 

 about eleven feet to the ridge, and have 

 run a 3-inch main up to the ridge, 

 branching off with two 2-inch returns 

 down from the ridge to return coils 

 of seven 1%-inch pipes on the south 

 side, which also run across the west end 

 and btusk to the boiler. Besides these, 

 there are seven l^-inch returns on the 

 north side, running back to the boiler. 



