JuNi 25. 1914. 



The Rorists' Review 



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duction and consequently are buying at 

 current retail prices. This is having the 

 effect of strengthening the wholesale 

 prices also. Even so, a good deal of 

 price cutting has been done by small 

 producers. Also, a lot of low volatile 

 coal has been sold here in substitution 

 for smokeless. There is still a good deal 

 of mine-run coal for sale at $1 per 

 ton, but this has not altered the pur- 

 pose of the major companies to get $1.25, 

 which is the circular figure." 



PIPING A VIRGINIA HOUSE. 



I have a greenhouse 30x30 and wish 

 to know the best method of piping it 

 in order to heat to 50 degrees in zero 

 weather. The house is to be used for 

 a general line of bedding plants and 

 florists' stock. I intend to increase the 

 length of the house as rapidly as pos- 

 sible. 



I have a vertical steam boiler, six 

 feet in height and thirty inches in 

 diameter, with fifty inch and three 

 tubes (f), which I wish to convert into 

 a hot water boiler. 



The house runs north and south, is 

 twelve feet high to the ridge, and has 

 concrete walls two and one-half feet 

 high, with two feet of glass in the side 

 walls. There are three 5-foot benches 

 and two 3^ -foot side benches. The 

 boiler is in the potting shed, 10x30, 

 across the north end of the house. Please 

 give the size of pipes to be used and 

 tell me what length of house thirty feet 

 wide this boiler will carry. J. L. 



The letter staies that the boiler has 

 a height of six feet, but it is not clear 

 whether that is the total height of the 

 boiler or the length of the tubes. We 

 infer that the former is the case, but if 

 the tubes are six feet in length, the 

 capacity of the boiler would be about 

 fifty per cent greater than the estimate 

 given. 



For a house 30x30 feet, with two feet 

 of glass in each of the side walls, we 

 would use five 2^4 -inch flow pipes and 

 ten 2-inch returns. Place one flow on 

 each plate, another at each purlin and 

 the other three feet below the ridge. 

 Two of the return pipes could be placed 

 under each bench. Give all of the pipe's 

 a slope of one inch in fifteen feet and 

 connect the expansion tank to the high- 

 est point of the main flow. 



The letter states that the heater is 

 a vertical boiler "with fifty inch and 



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three tubes." If that means that the 

 boiler has fifty 3-inch tubes, and the 

 tubes are four feet long, it would prob- 

 ably handle about 1,500 or 1,600 square 

 feet of radiating surface, but I would 

 consider it better to limit th^ amount 

 of radiation attached to such a boiler to 

 1,200 square feet. This would heat a 

 house 30x120 feet to 60 degrees in zero 

 weather. 



Trenton, N. J. — Martin Ribsam says 

 the seed business has held up well, mak- 

 ing a banner season. 



BALTIMOBE. 



The Market. 



The cool weather of the last week 

 was probably the cause of increased 

 business, as trade in nearly all lines 

 showed a considerable improvement. 

 Stock of all kinds found a ready mar- 

 ket; good roses were especially in de- 

 mand, with a rather insufficient supply. 

 Some good carnations are still coming 

 in and are finding a ready sale. Lilies 

 are still plentiful, with a fair demand. 



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