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The Florists' Review 



Febkuary 11, 1915. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



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 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Eeview to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus 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. 



A WEST VIRGINIA ROSE HOUSE. 



If I should build a rose house 35 x 110 

 and eight feet high to the eaves, to be 

 heated by steam with natural gas as 

 fuel, how should I pipe the house? The 

 coldest weather we ever had here was 

 5 degrees below zero. We expect to 

 plant roses that are grafted on Manetti. 

 J. W. A. 



The following suggestions are made 

 for the heating of a rose house, 35 x 110, 

 with steam: Run a 2 1/^ -inch main 

 through the house about two feet below 

 the ridge, and at the end of the house 

 farthest from the boiler connect it to 

 fourteen 1^-inch returns. The returns 

 should be arranged in about five coils, 

 two of which, each containing four 

 pipes, should be on the walls, while the 

 rest of the returns should be in three 

 coils of two pipes each, placed under 

 the benches. 



CANNOT KEEP UP TEMPERATURE. 



1 am having trouble with my boiler 

 and do not quite understand the reason 

 for the difficulty. Please give me a 

 little advice. There seems to be enough 

 piping in the greenhouses, but I cannot 

 get the water above 140 degrees, and 

 when I close the drafts a little the tem- 

 perature of the water drops fast. Do 

 you think the boiler is too small, or is 

 the trouble due to the chimney! 



I have a Moninger hot water boiler, 

 rated for 3,700 square feet, with a 

 Honeywell generator. I am trying to 

 heat the following houses: No. 1 is 

 25 X 125, with two feet of glass and 

 three feet of concrete in the side walls; 

 the roof has a slope of six inches to 

 the foot, making the rafters about thir- 

 teen and one-half feet long; there is 

 glass in both ends. No. 2 is 20 x 70, 

 with two feet of glass and two and 

 one-half feet of concrete in the walls; 

 the rafters have a slope of six inches to 

 the foot. No. 3 is 16 X 70, with two feet 

 of glass and two and one-half feet of 

 concrete in the walls. No. 4 is 10x35 

 and nine feet to the ridge, and has 

 frame walls, with no glass in the sides. 



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It only takes 30 minutes from firing 

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We naake • ipeclaltr of handling caretnlly ssleetee 

 Boiler Vlaea, t-lnch diameter and other slaes (or 

 treentaoose piping. Ontter Posts, stc. Also, ws 

 make a specialty of flues for retnblng boilers. All 

 flaes are thoroaghly cleaned Inside and oat. 

 trimmed, and are ready for nse. General Sales 

 Agents for Stnttle's Patent Olamp and Elbow for 

 lotnlng floes— no packing, no leaks. New standard 

 pipe and aU kinds of greenhonse fittings. Right 

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