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The Florists' Review 



Jdnb 18. 1914. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



SuBSCRffiERS 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 

 apparatus 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. 



COAL TBADE NOT FBOSFEBINO. 



Because the coal companies are, for 

 various reasons, selling their product at 

 prices so low that no profit is allowed 

 over the cost of production, they are 

 gradually drifting towards the rocks of 

 receivership and insolvency, declares an 

 organ of the industry in a recent issue. 

 * ' Anyone, ' ' it says, * ' who will take the 

 trouble to go over the list of what 

 have been considered solid coal compa- 

 nies will be astounded to find the num- 

 ber now in the hands of receivers." 

 •These were brought there, the article 

 makes it plain, not by speculation or 

 overextension, but by the absence of a 

 sufficient margin between the cost of 

 production and the selling price. 



Low prices made for the purpose of 

 extending the field or of meeting com- 

 petition, or, in some cases, made with 

 an incomplete knowledge of the cost of 

 production, have gradually cut the 

 ground from under the companies once 

 in stable condition. "Other concerns 

 now solvent," it is stated, "can look 

 at their books and see that, from the 

 present trend, there is but one ending 

 for them. That is insolvency and re- 

 ceivership — unless conditions change." 



OBEENHOUSE AND WOBKBOOM. 



Will you kindly inform me how I can 

 heat a greenhouse 18x40, ten feet high 

 to the ridge and five feet high at the 

 sides, with a workroom 10x10 at the 

 north end? The workroom and the side 

 walls of the greenhouse will be covered 

 with tar paper. The temperature 

 wanted will be 55 degrees in zero 

 weather. The house is protected from 

 severe winds. The boiler under consid- 

 eration is a No. 10 Ideal, a cast-iron 

 hot water boiler, the capacity of which 

 is unknown to me. The greenhouse con- 



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tains three raised benches, one on each 

 side and a double one in the center. 

 The location is southern Pennsylvania. 



J. L. L. 



So far as can be determined from the 



data furnished, there should be no diffi- 

 culty in heating the house described. A 

 2%-inch flow pipe should be run to the 

 farther end, about two feet below the 

 ridge, and connected with ten 2-inch re- 

 turn pipes. Three of these should be 



