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The Fbiists' Revkw 



OCT0B9 23. 1818. 



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Creenhoase feating. 



USING 4INCH SETUSNS. 



I have under construction a green- 

 house 16x40, with no side glass. The 

 boiler room, at one end, has its floor 

 three feet lower than the greenhouse 

 floor. I plan to run a 4-inch flow under 

 the ridge, and to use 4-inch returns 

 under the side benches. How many re- 

 turns will be needed to heat the house 

 for carnations? The mercury in this 

 part of New York state frequently 

 drops to zero, and occasionally to 12 or 

 15 degrees below zero. I propose to 

 use 4-inch boiler tubes for piping, on 

 account of their low cost in proportion 

 to the radiating surface. B, C. M. 



A carnation house 16x40 feet can be 

 heated by means of one 4-inch over- 

 head flow and four 4-inch returns. 



WILL MEED A SEPABATE FLOW. 



I am erecting another greenhouse on 

 my place and want some information in 

 regard to the piping. A hot water sys- 

 tem is used. The houses run east and 

 west. The old house, A, is on the north 

 side and is 20x60. The boiler is at the 

 northwest corner of this house. The 

 new house, B, is 9x60. Its north wall 

 is the south wall of house A and is four 

 feet high. The south wall of house B 

 is three feet six inches high and con- 

 tains no glass. House B has an un- 

 even-span roof, with 4%-foot rafters 

 on the north side and 8-foot rafters on 

 the south side. The height to the ridge 

 is six feet eight inches. I wish to run 

 a 2V^-iaoh flow at the east end to the 

 center of house B and divide to return 

 under the benches. This flow would be 

 connected at the southeast corner of 

 house A. Would the present 2i4-inch 

 flow on the south plate of house A sup- 

 ply the returns in house B, as well as 

 those in house At I am located in 

 southeastern Michigan. J. M. 



The south flow pipe in house A is not 

 large enough to supply, also, the re- 

 turns needed in house B. A 2i«^-inch 

 flow pipe should be run under the ridge 

 to the east end of the 'house, where it 

 should connect with six 2-ineh return 

 pipes, which can be placed under the 



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 are getting it unless you have 



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benches. The flow pipe should start at 

 the boiler, if possible, but it would 

 answer to carry a 3-inch flow from the 

 boiler to the southwest corner of house 

 A and there connect the present flow in 

 house A, and also a flow pipe leading to 

 house B. If 50 degrees will answer in 

 house B, it will only be necessary to 

 use four 2 inch returns in addition to 

 the 21/^ -inch flow pipe. 



HEAT FBOM RESIDENCE. 



Please advise me as to the best 

 method of heating a greenhouse with 

 hot water from -a boiler under the resi- 

 dence. The boiler is a 1,000-foot, hot 

 water American Ideal and it supplies 

 550 feet of radiation in the home. It 

 is located about twenty feet from the 



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greenhouse. The boiler, I think, is too 

 high for direct radiation from it, be- 

 cause the pipes would have to be in- 

 cased under the ground for a short dis- 

 tance, which would place them lowtr 

 than the boiler, thus hindering the cir- 

 culation. The boiler, however, is so 

 constructed that a water coil could be 

 inserted. This would be about three 

 feet lower than the pipes underground. 

 The greenhouse is 20x30 and is nine 



