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Mat 4, 1905. 



/The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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New Store of J. S. Simmons, Toronto. Photograped Just Before Easter. 



CAPAQTY OF COIL BOILER. 



I have a coil boiler containing 160 

 feet of 114-iiich pipe besides the" two 

 5-inch headers at top and bottom of the 

 coils. The forty return bends are also 

 exposed to the fire. The grate is 2x4 

 feet. The coils are directly over the fire 

 and the whole is bricked in so that we 

 have a good draft. I have one house 

 20x75, twelve feet to ridge. This is 

 piped with one 4-inch flow from each 

 side of the top header and returned 

 with two 4-inch pipes on each side to the 

 lower header. This kept this house warm 

 with very little firing. I have connected 

 to this house another 20x100. Will this 

 boiler heat this second house and keep 

 both warm enough to grow lettuce? 



J. W. E. 



If I interpret your situation correctly 

 you now have a pipe boiler carrying 160 

 lineal feet of 1^-inch pipe exposed to 

 the action of the heat. This would give 

 a heating surface of about seventy 

 square feet, which under normal condi- 

 tions should carry about 560 feet of 

 radiation. The six 4-inch pipes used in 

 the house 20x75 feet give a radiation of 

 about 526 square feet, or thirty-four feet 

 less than the rating of the boiler. It is 

 therefore not likely that this boiler will 

 be suflScient to heat the additional house. 



You have a little more pipe in the 

 house 20x75 feet than is necessary to 

 maintain a temperature of 50 degrees, 

 which is sufficient for lettuce, but even 

 were you to reduce the piping in this 

 house to 400 square feet of radiation, 

 you would then only have a reserve in 

 your boiler of 150 feet, whereas the 

 house 20x100 should have 520 feet of 

 radiation to supply it with sufficient 

 pipe to maintain a temperature of 50 

 degrees. 



If you like this type of boiler your 

 best plan would be to build an auxiliary 

 boiler to be placed in commission when 

 needed. Build another boiler of the 



same size as the one you now have and 

 then arrange the piping so as to heat 

 all from either boiler alone or so as 

 to use a boiler for each house! during se- 

 vere weather. 



Your plan of piping is all right if it 

 gives good results and if you can get 

 the radiation as cheaply in the 4-inch 

 pipe as in smaller pipe, which can sel- 

 dom be don«?. The 1% or li4-inch pipes 

 are usually less expensive for a given 

 area of rawdiation than the larger pipe. 

 In order that you may determine this for 

 your own case I will say that it takes 

 2.7 feet of 1%-inch and 2.3 feet of 1%- 

 inch pipe to equal one foot of 4-inch pipe 

 in area of radiation. L. C. C. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The trade had its ups and downs the 

 past week. The very disagreeable weather 

 interfered greatly with transient trade 

 among the down-town florists but there 

 seems to be considerable work going on 

 with the up-town retailers, with wed- 

 dings and parties. This, with a good 

 deal of funeral work, made the week fol- 

 lowing Easter a fairly good one. 



The growers are, of course, very busy 

 at this time of the year with bedding 

 stock and supplying the trade with 

 blooming plants. At the wholesale 

 houses there seems to be plenty of every- 

 thing the trade calls for except fancy 

 carnations. They seem to be a little off 

 crop at present. 



There are plenty of fine tea roses, 

 with the top figure! at $8 per hundred. 

 American Beauties are also in good sup- 

 ply, with fancies at $5 per dozen. Car- 

 nations are still up in price, with fancies 

 at $4 per hundred. Tulips, lily of the 

 valley, callas, longiflorums and other 

 bulbous stock show no advance. Sweet 

 peas are coming in fine and more than 

 the commission men can handle at pres- 

 ent. In greens the market has every- 



thing in plenty, including some of Cald- 

 well's new huckleberry branches, which 

 take the place of wild smilax and are 

 very well thought of among the trade 

 here. 



Various Notes. 



Miss Schnell, of East St. Louis, did a 

 fine business at Easter in plants and cut 

 flowers. 



The Plant and Cut Flower Growers' 

 Association held its regular meeting 

 April 26, a week later than usual, 

 owing to the busy Easter season. Presi- 

 dent Halstead read an essay on chry- 

 santhemum growing. The attendance 

 was fair and all the officers were pres- 

 ent. 



The Florists' Bowling Club has been 

 invited to visit DeSoto, Mo., by florists 

 Hippard and Frost for a friendly game 

 with the Bowlers' Club of that city, of 

 which Mr. Hippard is captain. The in- 

 vitation came through Ed Gerlach, of 

 Kuehn's, and has been accepted for an 

 early date. 



The tree planting committee of the 

 Civic Improvement League is composed 

 of Prof. H. C. Irish, F. A. Weber, Wm. 

 Scott Hancock and six prominent busi- 

 ness mem. 



The wind and hail storm of last Fri- 

 day wrecked part of the Horticulture 

 building at the World's Fair. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co., Chicago, 

 has been consigning the entire New Cas- 

 tle cut to Frank Ellis, owing to the 

 teamsters' strike at Chicago. The stock 

 consists of extra fine Brides, Maids, Lib- 

 erties and American Beauties. The 

 stock, Mr. Ellis said, sold well and 

 brought top prices. 



The committee that has charge of the 

 fall flower show says the preliminary 

 list will be out this week. A meeting 

 of this committee has been called for 

 this week. The hall question is still a 

 hard problem. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Weber, in com- 

 pany with their daughter and Theo. 



