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FLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY 



2,000,000 TONS ANNUAL CAPACITY --^ - 



HousTON=;rr.t-:: coals 



THACK ER 

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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. 



POCAHOIjM'S 

 COAL. 



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Main Offt«« 

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••■board Bank BMs^ Norfolk, Va, 



KoPKR,HooD. Gen'l Sales Agt. old Colony BMs^ CMoovI*^ R. C.*Cantklou. Western Mgr. W. W. Houston. Southern M»r 



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C. C. B. POCAHONTAS SMOKELESS COAL 



The unqualified favorite of leading florists for twenty years. 



SOVEREIGN 



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Greenhouse Beating. 



The annual production of smokeless 

 coals is around 17,000,000 tons. It is a 

 little below the average this year, but it 

 looks as though there should be enough so 

 all florists can get some. 



Subscribers are invited to 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. 



TWO MISSOUBI HOUSES. 



I am building two greenhouses, each 

 30x60 feet and eleven feet high to the 

 ridge. Each house has one glass gable 

 and the sides are all glass. They will 

 be heated by hot water. Will you kindly 

 give me an idea as to the piping needed 

 for these houses, to maintain a tempera- 

 ture of 50 degrees when the outside 

 temperature is 15 degrees below zero? 

 J. J. G. 



The question does not state the 

 amount of glass in the side walls, but 

 it is presumed that the amount in each 

 wall is about four feet. In that case, 

 each of the houses described can be 

 heated to 50 degrees by using three 2V2- 

 inch flow pipes and fifteen 2-inch re- 

 turns. Suspend one of the flow pipes 

 .about two feet below the ridge and 

 place one upon each wall plate. Four 

 of the returns may be placed upon each 



Simonds Heating & Specialty Co. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. 

 GREENHOUSE 



ONE POUND PRESSURE 



VACUUM HBATINQ SYSTEMS 



Mtfiittou TheKevlew when yoa write. 



GIBLIN BOILERS 



For Greenhouses. 

 STEAM AND WATER 



GIBLIN & CO., 



109 Broad St.. 



UTICA. N. Y. 



Meutlon Tbe Itevlew when you write. 



wall and the others may be distributed 

 under the benches. If the glass in each 

 wall is more or less than four feet, use 

 one return more or less for each foot of 

 glass more or less than four. 



THE COAL MABEETS. 



"It seems like repeating an old story 

 to say that the eastern coal trade is 

 being influenced by labor and car short- 

 ages and that this condition threatens 

 to grow worse rather than better," 

 says last week's Black Diamond, "but 

 even though it is an old story, it is a 

 true story just now and any man who 

 buys coal wants to take it seriously 

 into consideration." 



It is apparent that demand for an- 

 thracite is picking up a little. The 

 retail dealers do not profess to like the 

 advance in price due to the imposition 

 of the Pennsylvania tonnage taxi but 

 finding that rebellion against it is use- 

 less, they have about decided to pay it 



PUT YOUR HEATING PROBLEMS 

 = UP TO = 



Robt Ross Jones 



HARRISBURG, PA. 



Who Makes a Specialty of Cor- 

 rectinflf Defectire Oreen- 

 honse Heatings Syatema. 



FOR A STEADY PWESSUNE 



THE HUGISOII REGULATIIIG 

 VALVE 



HUQH80N STEAIM SPECIALTY CO. 

 802i-3 S. Stata St., Chicago 



and transfer it on to tiieir custome'S. 

 Smokeless mine-run is still in t x- 

 traordinarily strong demand, and, 'D 

 fact, there is already beginning to appt" 'f 

 the possibility of a decided shorta:;e 

 during the next four months. Some 

 pretty good sized contracts for smoke- 

 less coal are still to be closed and retail 

 dealers within the last week are making 

 inquiry for sources of supply, but tiie 

 sales agents after putting the matter np 

 to the mines have not been able to mai.e 

 any definite promises of delivery. This 

 applies not only to the smokeless coals 

 of West Virginia, but to the low vola- 

 tile coals of central Penn3ylvania. Thifl 

 means that smokeless coal is holding 



