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The Florists' Review 



August 7, 1913. 



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r FLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY j 



2,000.000 TONS ANNUAL CAPACITY 



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COALS 



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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. 



POCAHONT^^ 

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Main Offfic* 

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KuPER Hood, Gen'l Sales Agt. 



HOUSTON GOAL COMPANY 



Waatarn Offfiea 

 Old Colony BUg., Chlcaco R. C. Cantelou, Western Mgr. 



Southam Offffica 

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W. W. Houston, Southern Mjrr. 



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The unqualified favorite of leading florists for twenty yean. 



SOVEREIGN 



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

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



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Greenhouse Heating. 



The steadily increasing consumption of 

 smokeless coal in other lines, especially in 

 apartment houses in cities, probably will 

 make it necessary for florists to pay con- 

 stantly advancing prices for Pocahontas 

 and other coals of the same class. It 

 merely is a question of what the traffic 

 will bear. 



Subscribers are invited tb write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Review 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. 



ONE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE. 



My greenhouse is 27x60 feet. The 

 flow pipe from the boiler is 214-inch; 

 it runs to the far end of the house, 

 about four feet down from the ridge, 

 and branches oflf in. two 2-ineh pipes to 

 four 1*4 -inch returns that go all around 

 the house in two sections. Is that 

 enough piping to heat the house to 50 

 degrees at night in zero weather! If 

 not, how much more piping is needed. 

 S. A. W. 



In order to maintain a temperature of 

 50 degrees in the house described, with 

 steam heat, one 2i^-inch flow pipe and 

 eight 1^-inch returns will be required. 

 Of these returns, two or three pipes 

 should be on each wall and the others 

 distributed under the benches. Of 



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Mines on B. & O. R. R. 



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Kelly, W. Va., Smokeless Coal 



MINE RUN-IDEAL COAL FOR FLORISTS 



Delivered Prices Furnislied upon Appiication 



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BITUMINOUS COAL 



Marquette DIdg., CHICAGO 



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 Representative Will Call 



MentioM Tlw BeTlew when yoo wrlf . 



course, all of the return pipes may be 

 on the walls, but it will be better if 

 one or two can be placed under each 

 bench. 



COAL AT CHICAOO. 



The Franklin county operators of Ill- 

 inois are discounting the shortage of 

 water, the rush of buying orders, and 

 the shortage of cars by advancing their 

 prices to $1.60 a ton on lump, egg and 

 nut, and other prices correspondingly 

 high. All of these prices went into 

 effect August 1. The largest compa- 

 nies have, in the last two months, made 

 astounding production records and yet 

 they have not been able to overstock 

 the market. Some of the smaller opera- 

 tions have been closed down in part, 

 but the field as a whole has been doing 

 a tremendous business. Indiana opera- 

 tors have enjoyed a splendid market at 

 home. They could have sold quite a 

 lot of coal in Chicago had they been 

 willing to accept the prevailing prices. 



but those prices have not been consid- 

 ered isatisfactory. 



The technical situation of the smoke- 

 less market has not changed appreciably 

 in the last week. Nothing has occurred 

 to change the tide of demand for that 

 coal. Certain retail dealers are still 

 short in supply, while the apartment 

 houses are, in some anxiety, buying ip 

 coal ahead of the time when they pro- 

 pose to use it. This has made a strong 

 market for mine-run coal on the ba-is 

 of $1.50 at the mines. 



A NEW HOUSE AND EXTENSION. 



I am building another greenhou-e, 

 25x120, alongside the present one, a. id 

 wish to know how to pipe it for hot 

 water. The boiler is an American Idenl, 

 rated at 1,800 square feet of radiation. 

 Would it be better to tap the other 

 opening in the boiler or to connect the 

 two mains f I have only one main run- 

 ning from the;boiler at present. I have 



