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The Florists^ Review 



May 21, 1914. 



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FLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY { 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of thia DepartmeBt 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 

 Mlieve, the best for the trade to buy, 

 and each article the best in the special 

 field of its adaptation. 



PIPING A PARTITIONED HOUSE. 



A little advice as to how my new 

 greenhouse should be piped would be 

 much appreciated. The house in ques- 

 tion is 21x60 and runs east and west. 

 It is nine feet high to the ridge. The 

 west end is boarded up; the east end is 

 all glass. The south wall, which is four 

 feet high to the eaves,-i»-«W glass; the 

 north side has a 3-foot concrete wall 

 and IS protected by another greenhouse, 

 three feet away. The house I wish to 

 pipe is built on sloping ground and is 

 four feet lower than the north house. 

 I wish to pipe this house with 2-inch 

 pipe for hot water. I shall divide the 

 house into two 30-foot parts, heating the 

 east end to 50 degrees and the west end 

 to 60 degrees, in zero weather. The 

 location is southeastern Pennsylvania. 



E. F. C. 



From the data given in the letter, it 

 is not possible to determine where the 

 boiler is located or whether it is so 

 placed as to secure a good circulation. 

 From the fact that the west end of the 

 house is boarded up, it is inferred that 

 the boiler house is located at that end 

 of the greenhouse. 



A 4-inch main flow and return will 

 answer for this house, but I would sug- 

 gest that three 2%-inch flow pipes be 

 used inside the house. One of them 

 could be on each plate and the other 

 about twenty inches below the ridge. 

 At the farther end of the house connect 

 each flow pipe with a coil of three 2-inch 

 returns, and carry these back through 

 both of the rooms. These, with the 

 flow pipes, will be sufficient to furnish 

 50 degrees. To secure 60 degrees in the 

 west end of the house, an additional 

 pipe should be taken off from one pipe 

 in each coil, making twelve returns in 

 the west end of the house. 



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THE FUEL MABKET. 



The situation in the coal trade con- 

 tinues to be somewhat gloomy — not 

 gloomy to the florists, for the florists 

 are on the bright side of the dark 

 cloud, but gloomy as viewed by the 

 coal dealers. However, a few rays of 

 light are now penetrating to the coal 

 men, for the latest reports state that 

 "spot buying of coal has been im- 

 proved, on account of the fact that 

 railroads, public utility companies and 

 factories have about run through their 

 storage piles and consequently are back 

 in the market to replenish their coal 

 bins." The coal companies also state 

 that contracting has begun and that 

 last year's contracts are being renewed 

 at last .year's prices. These develop- 

 ments have brought a more cheerful 

 aspect to the market than has been ap- 

 parent for some time. 



Still, the improvement is only slight. 

 The wholesale coal trade is less gloomy, 



it is said, simply "because business has 

 begun to move again after six weeks 

 of absolute stagnation and no pro- 

 duction." And it is only in the bitu- 

 minous market that the signs of re- 

 newed life are visible; "nothing has 

 happened," it is said, "to improve the 

 tone of the anthracite trade.'* 



The Black Diamond, from wliich the 

 foregoing facts were principally 

 gleaned, goes on to say: "The one 

 thing which has disturbed the trade 

 somewhat within the last week has 

 been the announcement that tariffs 

 have been filed with the interstate com- 

 merce commission by the major anthra- 

 cite carrying roads, calling for an ad- 

 vance of 25 cents per ton on the trans- 

 portation charge on anthracite effec- 

 tive in Chicago and the territory 

 reached through Chicago. 



"The smokeless coal market has been 

 decidedly easy. This has found expres- 



