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The Florists' Revkw 



Dbcdmbeh 3, 1914. 



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THE PIPINQ AND THE STACK. 



Please inform me how to heat my 

 five greenhouses, as shown in the en- 

 closed sketch, to a night temperature of 

 65 degrees, using hot water. I lim 

 located, you will notice, near Puget 

 ^8ound, in the state of Washington. I 

 have an S-section boiler, bought from 

 the Kellogg-Mackay Co., Chicago, 111. 

 I also have on hand the following pipe, 

 which I wish to use: 400 feet of 3^^- 

 inch, 700 feet of 2-inch and 900 feet 

 of 114 -inch. The houses run east and 

 west. The north house and the next 

 one south are each 12x100; the other 

 three houses are each 15x100. The 

 houses are five feet high to the gutters 

 and twelve feet high to the ridge. The 

 north and south walls of the range 

 contain eighteen inches of glass; below 

 the glass the walls are double-boarded. 

 The boiler will be in a pit at the south- 

 ■east corner of the range and will be 

 six feet below the lowest greenhouse. 

 I 'intend to use wood as fuel. Please 

 tell me, also, in what proportions to 

 use the materials in building a concrete 

 smokestack. I. O. 



For piping the two houses which are 

 12x100, I would use a 2%-inch flow 

 pipe in each ridge and three 2-inch 

 returns on each side wall, underneath. 

 In two of the houses 15x100 use a 314- 

 inch flow on each plate and three 2-inch 

 returns on each wall. In the south 

 house place a 214-inch flow upon each 

 plate and run five l^^-inch returns on 

 the south wall and four on the north 

 wall. In the foregoing suggestions', of 

 course, the intention has been to enable 

 you to use as largely as possible the 

 piping you have on hand. 



For the chimney use sharp sand, 

 gravel and Portland cement. The num- 

 ber and size of the reinforcing rods 

 will depend upon the size of the chim- 

 ney, but half-inch round or square rods 

 will probably answer. They should be 

 placed in the center of the wall, about 

 one foot apart, and there should be a 

 horizontal ring every three feet. For 

 the chimney use one part of cement, 

 two parts of sand, finer than i4-i°ch, and 

 four parts of gravel, i/4-inch to 2-inch, 

 reducing the amount of gravel and sand 

 one-half for the lower five feet and the 

 upper foot of the chimney. 



CAPACITY OF HEATING SYSTEM. 



I have a range of four connected 

 houses. Three of them are each 24x85 

 and twelve feet to the ridge; the other 

 is 10x85 and eight feet to the ridge. 

 The small house is enclosed by a glazed 

 partition. The two houses to the right 

 of the. small house nave three 214-in.ch 



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The Value of a Thermostat 



LET A FLORIST TELL IT 



TJERE is what a greenhouse man said in a letter to The Review: "The 

 * * value of a thermostat in a greenhouse may possibly interest you, so I take 

 the present opportunity of explaining its advantages. Three weeks ago I in- 

 stalled a Standard thermostat, made by the Standard Thermometer Co., putting 

 it in my rose house, 200 feet from the residence. After sundown each day I set 

 the low contact hand at 57 degrees and the high contact hand at 65 degrees. 

 The black temperature hand, to record 60 degrees, plays between these figures. 

 Should the temperature rise or fall, the alarm bell, just over my bed, rings 

 loudly. I consider this Instrument a boon to any florist with a me- 

 dium-sized range, for it dispenses with the services of a night fireman. With 

 correct firing, I can keep a steady temperature of 60 degrees at night in the 

 rose house and also in four other houses, in all about 5000 feet of glass."— Thomas 

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overhead flows in each, and six 2-inch 

 returns under the benches. The single 

 house to the left has four 2%-inch over- 



head flows, with eight 2-inch returns 

 on the walls, as solid benches are used. 

 The small house has two 2Vi-inch flows 



