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JUNK 1. 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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thoroughly, outside and in, and store it 

 away in a dry shed. A heater should 

 always be kept full of water. That any 

 boilermaker will tell you. The notion 

 that the water should be drawn out and 

 replenished each fall is pure nonsense. 

 Every time you fill the heater and pipes 

 with fresh water you get a fresh deposit 

 of dirt and sediment. The same water 

 will do as long as the heater lasts. 



All the inside of the beater you can 

 get at should be well smeared with black 

 oil the doors, dampers, hinges, ash pit 

 and all, even the outside of the boiler; 

 but it is the inside, where the fire strikes, 

 that needs it in particular. The rust 

 makes little progress while you fire stead- 

 ily. It is in the summer the mischief is 

 done. A steam boiler should be filled 

 almost full of water and then four or 

 five gallons of crude petroleum poured in 

 on top. Of course, the oil will float on 

 the surface and as you let the water 

 slowly out at the bottom every particle 

 of the sides and tubes will have a coat 

 of oil and the inside of the tubes should 

 be swabbed out with a bunch of oily 

 rags or your flue cleaner and your doors 

 and hinges and other fixings should be 

 well oiled. 



A boilerman of many years' experience 

 told me he was convinced that a steam 

 boiler would last twice as long in con- 

 stant use as one that lay idle five months 

 in the summer. Our cast iron heaters are 

 too often shamefully neglected. Don't 

 do it unless you like to be often experi- 

 menting with a new pattern. 



What I called blacjk oil is what you can 

 often get at a mill or factory, oil that 

 has been used in journals, but lard oil is 

 as good or better, only more expensive. 



William Scott. 



THE BABY RAMBLER ROSE. 



The originators of the dwarf ever- 

 blooming Crimson Rambler rose are Le- 

 vavasseur &, Sons, a leading firm of 

 French nurserymen, who gave to it the' 

 name of the wife of one of the members 

 of the firm, Mme. Norbert Levavasseur, 

 but this was too long for practical 

 American purposes and it was here given 

 the much better descriptive name of 

 Baby Rambler. 



It is well known that the head of a 

 firm of Rochester nurserymen saw the 

 rose growing at the' establishment of the 

 originators and paid a fancy price for 

 stock with the provision that they 

 should have exclusive control in Ameri- 

 ca. They, however, failed to stipulate 

 that dissemination in Europe and 'Amer- 

 ica should be simultaneous and the re 

 suit was that a number of American 

 firms received stock in a roundabout 

 way from Europe almost, if not quite, 

 as soon as did the firm which paid a 

 bonus for a control it did not get. This 

 instance may have served to attract early 

 attention to the rose, but its undoubted 

 qualities of merit have served to make 

 it one of the most highly prized of re- 

 cent novelties. Indeed, there are those 

 among leading nurserymen who assert 

 that, whatever Turner's Crimson Rambler 

 has been to the trade, the Baby Ram- 

 bler will be even more valuable. This 

 plant partakes of all the characteristics 

 of the original Crimson Rambler, save 

 that is does not grow more than twelve 

 to eighteen inches high. It is practically 

 everblooming and, indeed, is said by those 

 who have given it free rein to almost 

 bloom itself to death. In a greenhouse 

 it blooms all the year around. 



Rose Mme. Norbert Levavasseur, the Bab'jr Rambler. 



The accompanying illustration gives a 

 fair idea of the character of the plants 

 which were offered in considerable quan- 

 tity at Easter this year. It is an admir- 

 able thing for usef in making up plant 

 baskets and hampers but it is as a Christ- 

 mas plant that it will have its greatest 

 usefulness to the retail florist. The 

 flowers are a little larger and a little 

 brighter in color than those of the 

 Crimson Rambler. As a bedding rose 

 this will have a place of its own, and 

 tremendous stocks are now being worked 

 up in all the leading establishments. 

 The price in the last few months has 

 been reduced nearly fifty per cent and il 

 will be but a short time before this is 

 one of the most widely used and most 

 profitable plants known to the trade. 



Morrison, III.— "W. A. Field is put- 

 ting in the foundations of the Hills & 

 McKenzie greenhouses. 



Lima, O.— The Swan Floral Co. has 

 been doing a big business in bedding, 

 porch and window boxes and lawn vases. 



Providence, R. I. — C. W. Smith, sec- 

 retary of the Rhode Island Horticul- 

 tural Society, has issued the schedules 

 for the June and November exhibitions. 



RETURNING CONDENSATION. 



I have a block of greenhouses heated 

 by steam, the return pipes being two 

 feet above the water level of the boilers 

 and also two feet above the top of the 

 benches. I wish to place the returns 

 below the benches, or about three feet 

 below the water level of the boilers. 

 Will a steam-trap placed low enough to 

 drain the pipes raise the water up to 

 the boiler or is a pump necessary? 

 Would a trap interfere with the gravity 

 system of another block of houses about 

 eight feet higher? There is about 12,000 

 feet of 1^4 -inch pipe in the lower block 

 (if houses. What size of return pipe wil! 

 he needed to carry 100 feet to the boiler? 

 If a pump is used, what capacity of 

 jiump would be necessary in coldest 

 leather in ininois? G. H. C. 



A gravity system of returning con- 

 densed or return water to the boiler is 

 always preterable, but where it is im- 

 possible or impractical to get the boiler 

 low enough, the water may be returned 

 by means of a trap. There are two or 

 three forms of steam-trap that may be 

 used for this purpose, the usual form 

 being placed above the boiler. .The re- 

 turn water is collected in a closed re- 



