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pots. These were very welcome, for they 

 are perfectly hardy here and do well and 

 live year after year, spreading into big 

 mats, which in early summer are a sheet 

 of white or pink or purple blooms, ac- 

 cording to variety. Anyone doing job- 

 bing, gardening, park or cemetery work 

 should grow these hardy pinks extensive- 

 ly. They always give satisfaction. 



Blind Bros, have their messenger boys 

 togged up in a very stylish uniform, 

 and were questioned about it. We thought 

 it very proper and complimented them 

 on this get-up and progressive step. 

 "Yes, that's all very well," explained 

 Ernest Ludwig. "I tried that thing 

 years ago, and I would have a new boy 

 maybe every week or every month, and 

 that meant a new uniform every time 1 

 had a new boy, so T quit it. I wasn 't do- 

 ing to clothe ^every kid in Allegheny. ' ' 



T. P. LANGHANS. 



T. P. Langhans, the new president of 

 the Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club, is one of the men 

 of the time, about 31 years old, full of 

 energy and a shrewd business man. He 

 entered the florist 's business about Feb- 



PRONOUNQNG DICTIONARY. 



(Oopyriffht 1904. by Florists' Publishing Co.) 



Frequent inquiry as to the correct pro- 

 nunciation of plant names has lea us 

 to compile the following list of names, 

 selecting those in most common use in 

 the trade, and including botanical terms 

 most frequently met with in articles upon 

 plant culture. 



In our list we have used the following 

 KEY TO PRONUNCIATION, 

 a as In fat e as in met o as in not* 



& as in fate e as in mete & as in mo-. ■ 



& as in far e as in her 6 as In nor 



& as in fall 1 as in pin u as in tub 



a as in fare i as in pine u as in mute 



& as In Persia o as in not ii as In pull 



The syllables to be accented are marked 

 thus'. 



8 



(OONIINUKD rROM liAST W»X.) 



Spectabilis — (spk-ta'bil-is) . 

 Sphagnum — (sfag'num) . 

 Spicerianum — (spl-ser-i-a'num) . 

 Spirsea — (spl-re'a) . 

 Spiranthes — (spl-ran'thez) . 

 Splendens — (splen'denz). 

 Sprekelia — (spre-k§'li-fl.). 

 Sprengeri — (spreng'er-i) . 



T. P. Langhans. 



Kiary, 1896, as bookkeeper for G. & J. 

 W. Ludwig, of Pittsburg, but the follow- 

 ing year entered into partnership with 

 Frank Breitenbaugh in the Allegheny 

 Market, under the firm name of Lang- 

 hans & Co., and continued until July, 

 1898, when he with Fred Burki and W. 

 A. Clarke entered into partnership as the 

 Pittsburg Cut Flower Co., Ltd., Mr. 

 Langhans acting as secretary. As Mr. 

 Langhans does nothing by halves, his 

 election to its head speaks for a success- 

 ful year for the club. 



Spruce — (spros). 

 Squarrosa— (skwar-o'sa) . 

 Stachys — (sta'kis). 

 Stamen — (sta'men). 

 Staminate — (stam'i-nat). 

 Stanhopea — (stan -h o' pe-i) . 

 Stapelia — (sta-pe'li-i) . 

 Staphylea — (staf-i-le'a) . 

 Statice - (.stat'i-se) . 

 Stellata (ste-la'ta). 

 Stephanotis — (stef-a-no'tis) . 

 Stembergia^ (stem-ber' ji-&) . 

 Stevia — (ste'vi-a). 

 Stigma — (stig'm&) . 



Stipa — (sti'pA). 

 Stipule— (stip'al).*" 

 Stokesia— (st5-kg'8i-&) . 

 Stolon — (sto'lon). 

 Stratiotes— (8trat-i-6't6z) . 

 Strelitsia— (8tre-lit'si-&) . 

 StreptocarpuB — (strep-to-kar'pus) . 

 Striata— (strl-ft't&). 

 Strobilanthes — (8trob-i-lan'th§z) . 

 Stuartia — (stu-ar'ti-a) . 

 St3rrax — (sti'raks) . 

 Suflruticosa — (su-f r d-ti-ko'sS.) . 

 Swainsona — (s wan'son-&) . 

 Sylvestris — (sil-ves'tris) . 

 Symphorican>os — (sim-fo-ri-kar'pos) 

 Ssrmplocos — (sim-plo'kos) . 

 Syringa— (si-ring' g&) . 



(To be continued.) 



SETTING FOR TUBULAR BOILER. 



I have a horizontal tubular boiler three 

 feet in diameter with a steam dome. 

 There are twenty-eight 3-inch flues eight 

 feet long. The grate bars are three 

 feet. I would like a description of the 

 brickwork to go around the boiler. Ii 

 nut or pea coal cheaper to burn than 

 lump coal? How often should the flues 

 be cleaned! How many square feet of 

 glass can be heated with this boiler f 

 How often ought I to have to fire it to 

 keep up steam when it is 20 degrees be- 

 low zero outside? Beginner. 



The brickwork suitable for your boiler 

 can be shown better by a diagram than 

 by description. See the accompanying 

 illustration. The boiler should be 

 placed so that the water line in the 

 boiler will be three or four feet below 

 the lowest point in the returns in the 

 houses, so as to give a good gravity re- 

 turn. The boiler pit should be large 

 enough to allow room in front for clear- 

 ing the flues and space enough in the 

 rear to clean out any soot or ashes which 

 may collect on the under side of the 

 boiler shell or in the space back of the 

 fire-box. A door should also be provided 

 at the rear, close to the bottom of the 

 boiler, to admit of cleaning this part of 

 the boiler. The excavation for the boiler 

 setting need not be brought down to a 

 common level. The floor level need only 

 be carried back far enough to give 

 space for the ash pit and bridge wall, 

 the earth may be allowed to remain in- 

 tact back of the bridge wall to the 

 height of the ash pit. This will save 

 both in cost of excavation and cost of 

 brickwork. This is shown in the sketch 

 between H and J. 



About 700 fire brick will be needed 

 and about 4,000 arch brick to build the 

 setting. Walls eighteen inches thick 

 should be carried up above the fire line, 

 but from that point up they may be re- 

 duced to thirteen inches. The brick 

 work should be made about two inches 

 larger, inside measurement, than the di- 

 ameter of the boiler over all, and after 

 the boiler has been hung on its lugs, or 

 bearings, a course of brick should be 

 set up to within about a quarter of an 

 inch of the boiler shell. The brickwork 

 should be carried about two courses 

 above the level of the top of the shell 

 of t"he boiler. The space above the 

 boiler should be filled with sand or dry 

 ashes to form a jacket to prevent loss 

 by direct radiation from the boiler. 



An 8-inch stack should be large enough 

 but I believe that a 10-inch one would 

 be better and that it should be high 

 enough to extend a foot or two above 

 the ridge of any near-by buildings. In 

 case there are no buildings I would not 



