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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 20, 1905. 



The Whilldiii Pottery Co. 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



Our output ot Flower Pots is larsrer tban any conceni in the World 

 Our Stock is always Large and Complete 



Main Office and Factory. 



713 WHARTON STREET, PHILADELPHIA 



Warehouses: JERSEY CITY. N. J. LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y. 



PIPING IN MICHIGAN. 



I am building a greenhouse 18x70 feet, 

 walls five feet and ridge eleven feet. 1 

 would like to use hot water in a 2-inch 

 feed pipe and li/4-inch returns. In the 

 climate of Michigan, how shall I pipe? 



W. E. G. 



If you will use a 2i/4-inch flow pipe 

 under the ridge from the boiler to the 

 most distant end of the greenhouse anci 

 there divide into three 2-inch pipes to 

 supply a manifold of six 1^4 -inch pipes 

 under each side bench and a manifold 

 with five 1%-inch pipes under the center 

 bench, one riser or flow pipe can be made 

 to supply the necessary radiation to 

 maintain a temperature of 65 to 70 de- 

 grees during severe weather, provided the 

 water is maintained at 180 degrees. This 

 Avill necessitate a good sized expansion 

 tank, thirty to fifty gallons, located six 

 to ten feet above the highest point in tho 

 system. The high point in the system 

 should preferably be at the point where 

 the mam flow pipe divides to supply the 

 return manifolds. L. C. C. 



IMPOSSIBLE. 



Will you kindly let us know how much 

 2-inch pipe we shall need to heat a house 

 20X.50 feet, four and one-half feet to 

 the plates and eleven feet to the ridge. 

 The house stands out in the open, New 

 Jersey climate, and has twenty inches of 

 glass in the walls. Wle want 50 degrees 

 and not to have the water in the boiler 

 over 50 degrees at any time. All pipes 

 must be under the benches. W. H. F. 



Because of the writer's haste or a bad 

 pen, I am not certain of the dimensions 

 of the house but assume that it is 20x50 

 feet. If this is the case it can be heated 

 to a temperature of 50 degrees by the 

 use of ten 2-inch pipes the length of the 

 house, provided the water is heated to 

 180 degrees. It would not be possible to 

 pipe the house so as to maintaili a tem- 

 perature of 50 degrees in the house with 

 water in the heater at 50 degrees. 



L. C. C. 



GLAZING. 



I want to build a small greenhouse 

 and would like to know the best way of 

 putting on glass, to butt or lap it; also 

 would a cap on the sash bars be better 

 than to glaze it in the ordinary way? 

 When glass is butted do you use any- 

 thing between the panes of glass? 



L. V. B. 



It is rather cruel to ask me to answer 

 the above, for I have been and still am 

 a sincere believer in butted glass for the 

 commercial man and practice what I 

 preach, for it has many advantages, yet, 

 in this case, a small greenhouse for a 

 beginner, I would recommend that the 

 glass be lapped. Bed the glass firmly 



and evenly in the best quality putty and 

 fasten with a good glazing point. You 

 cannot use a cap on lapped glass. There 

 is no need of it. Let the lap be no 

 more than a quarter of an inch. Less 

 is still better. 



A little gratuitous advice is to send 

 a sketch of your intended greenhouse to 

 one of the practical and reliable horti- 

 cultural builders, who will get out and 

 ship you every piece of material, cut 

 and fitted, of clear cypress lumber, and 

 it is only fun to put it together. 



There is one question overlooked. 

 When we butt glass nothing but the cap 

 is used. Putty or any metal strip be- 

 tween butted glass is a big mistake. 



W. S. 



STEAM OR HOT WATER. 



From my boiler a 4-inch feed pifie 

 rises to a considerable height, turns and 

 enters the greenhouses, then drops in a 

 3-inch pipe to where it enters the 2-incli 

 floor overhead in the house. This falls 

 slightly to the far end, where a perpen 

 dicular pipe goes down to the coil of l^/L"- 

 inch pipe beneath the benches. A 3-inch 

 pipe enters the boiler and from the low- 

 est point a 1-inch pipe is carried to the 

 expansion tank. I can use either steam 

 or hot water, but when I fire hard, when 

 using hot water, the pipes near the boiler 

 seem to fill up with steam and hot water. 

 We can hear the water and steam boil- 

 ing, and it even shakes the pipes, but the 

 water seems to stop circulating. The 

 pipes farthest from the boiler, and the 

 return pipes, get cool. I can close the 

 pipe that leads to the expansion tank, 

 turn the city water into the boiler and 

 leave it turned on; then it works all 

 right. I can fire as hard as I like. The 

 harder I fire the hotter the pipes get. 

 But I have to carry the city pressure, 

 which is from fifty to seventy-five pounds, 

 which is more than I care to carry on 

 my system. The water rises to the 

 highest point over the boiler. From 

 there it is down grade all the way baek 

 to the boiler. To heat with steam i 

 draw the water oif to the proper amount 

 in the boiler, but I would prefer to heat 

 with water if I could get it to work 

 properly. Can you suggest a remedy? 



C. L. E. 



If I interpret your description cor- 

 rectly there are too many crooks in the 

 flow pipe to work well with hot water. 

 If the high point could be brought on an 

 even grade with the 2-inch flow and the 

 expansion tank elevated to ten or twelve 

 feet above the highest point in the syb- 

 tem, or even higher, there would be little 

 danger of the heat driving the water out 

 of the sj'stem as it now appears to do. 



L. C. C. 



Mt. Vernon, Ind. — M. L. Doerr has 

 gone out of business. He traded as the 

 Mt. Vernon Floral Co. 



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Are of such 

 Material and 

 so Strongfly 

 Braced that 

 neither 

 Whirlwind 

 nor Cyclone 

 can twist one 

 from its base. 



THE 

 TANKS 



they support 

 are always 

 equally ready 

 for use. 



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Louisville, Ky. 



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