August 21, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



131 



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e Boiler Sense 



A few flat facts in which we tell why neither cast iron nor wrought 

 iron boilers are the best boilers for all s^reenhouse purposes 



It's an old saying that "A Jack of all trades is 

 master of none." Any boiler that claims to suc- 

 cessfully meet all the requirements of all the green- 

 house conditions is a Jack-of-all-trades kind of a 

 boiler. 



It's no more possible to make such a boiler than 

 it is to brew one kind of medicine to cure all the 

 diseases from mumps to measles. 



So let's get right down to facts. 



No one, who knows anything about the compara- 

 tive lasting qualities of iron, questions for a minute 

 that cast iron boilers outlast wrought iron, three to 

 one. Neither do they try to make themselves be- 

 lieve that retubing is "not so bad after all." 



Every man who really knows admits that retubing 

 is a nuisance and a big expense. No boiler maker 

 can safely guarantee that his tubes will last a 

 'certain number of years. The thing that really 

 decides that, i8 the kind of water you use and the 

 condition of your cellar. 



After you have retubed your boiler you will then 

 know how often it needs to be retubed, and what 

 it costs. 



As for setting up a wrought iron boiler; it's an 

 engineering job of no mean proportions. 



To secure a wagon strong enough to carry a big 

 wrought iron boiler is a problem in itself. To get 

 it off the cars into your cellar is a very serious mat- 

 ter and an expensive one. 



Then there is the masonry work — another thing to 

 be looked after — another expense you must not fail 

 to allow liberally for. 



If you contemplate enlarging your range in the 

 next few years, you must buy a much larger wrought 

 iron boiler than you now need, so you will have 

 enough to heat the new houses. 



Until you do build, you have a good bit of money 

 tied up in that big boiler; money that is not earn- 

 ing a cent. In fact, it's costing you money. Money 

 lost in interest and money lost in lack of economy; 



for it's not possible to run a boiler economically 

 that's twice as big as needed for the work it has 

 to do. 



Of course you can brick off half the fire box. But 

 right away you spoil the balance between your fire 

 surfaces and the volume of water to be moved, as 

 carefully figured out and allowed for by the boiler 

 maker. 



This means, you must do more and harder firing 

 and burn altogether too much coal; or else be con- 

 tent with a sluggish circulation in your coils. There 

 is no way to get around such a condition. 



Another thing — wrought iron heats slower than 

 cast iron and soot and scales stick to it more per- 

 sistently. 



Get These Facts: 



Now listen to this: Cast iron boilers have their 

 limitations — wrought iron also have theirs. Each 

 is the best for its particular purpose for which it 

 was particularly designed. 



For Lord & Burnham to claim that a battery of 

 Burnham Boilers will economically heat a range larger 

 than 30,000 square feet of glass would be decidedly 

 untrue. 



But up to this limit there is no single wrought 

 boiler made that has the advantages and the econo- 

 mies of the Burnham Cast Iron Boiler, 



This ad. is not a knock at the wrought iron boiler, 

 ..but^simply a fair and square statement of condi- 

 tions. A placing of each type of boiler in the place 

 where by the very nature of its material and con- 

 struction it places Itself. 



Such things are beyond argument, beyond even 

 clever salesmen 's talks. They are facts — just plain, 

 common-s'ense facts. 



As for the advantages and economies of Burnham 

 Cast Iron Boilers over other cast iron boilers — 

 that's another story. One we will talk with you 

 about in another week's page. 



Battery of 5 Burnhams at the new J. B. Duke Greenhouses, Somerville, N. J. 



Lord and Burnham Co. 



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