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Septembeb 28, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1039 



Prize Automobile Decoration by Q. Sylvester, Oconomowoc, Wis. 



A NEW DETROIT HOUSE. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the store front of the Detroit Cut Flower 

 Supply House, which was opened for 

 business March 10, 1905, by H. V. Pearce, 

 who is seen standing in the doorway, and 

 C H, Pease, who is the managing part- 

 ner. They are pleasant gentlemen of 

 long experience in the trade and their 

 judgment that Detroit offered a good 

 field for such a concern as theirs has 

 been fully proven by the results attained 

 in a very few months. They have a num- 

 ber of good growers and are doing a 

 nice local trade and considerable ship- 

 ping, with good prospects for material 

 increases in both departments. 



A DECORATED AUTOMOBILE. 



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At a recent floral parade at Oconomo- 

 woc. Wis., exclusively for automobiles, 

 there were about forty-five entries. 

 Many of the vehicles were decorated at 

 heavy expense by some of the leading 

 decorators brought up from Chicago, but 

 the first prize went to the automobile 

 decorated by Otto Sylvester, of Ocono- 

 mowoe, shown in the accompanying illus' 

 tration. The motor wagon was given the 

 form of a sail-boat. Thousands of Shasta 

 'daisies and pansies were used and 

 trimmed with asparagus. It was a dis- 

 tinct feature of the parade. 



BOILER AND PIPING. 



I can buy a return tubular boiler with 

 a dome. It is ten feet long, forty-four 

 inches in diameter and has forty-six 

 3-inch flues. It is rated at twenty-flve 

 horse-power. It has been used for steam 

 and bias a 3-inch opening. Will such a 

 boiler be all right for hot water f Will 

 it need larger openings than 3-inch? 

 How low should the dome be below the 

 level of the greenhouse floor? 



My two houses are 18x75, eleven feet 

 to the ridge and five and one-half feet 

 to the gutters; glass in east gable. I 

 have 300 feet of 4-inch boiler flues for 

 one h|ou8e; the balance will be 1^-inch 

 pipe. : One house is for mixed stock, the 

 other for carnations. How much piping 

 ■will I require in Kansas climate and 

 bow shall 1 arrange it? I have a 45- 



gallon expansion tank to put above the 

 boiler. 



Could I use crude oil for fuel, at $1.25 

 per barrel, at a saving over coal at $5 

 per ton? C. J. L. 



If the boiler in question is a good one 

 it will be satisfactory for a hot-water 

 heater. This type of boiler is the most 

 economical of fuel of any form you could 

 employ for hot-water heating. If it can 

 be so arranged that the top of the dome 

 is two feet or more below the level of 

 the floor of the greenhouses, the more 

 easily the heating system in the houses 

 can be arranged. The 3-inch opening in 

 the dome will probably be suflBcient. A 

 good way to manage this would be to 

 place a short nipple in the opening and 

 to it fasten a 3-inch tee and from each 

 opening in the tee carry a riser to each 

 of the two houses. A <i%-inch flow pipe 

 will be suflScient, or, if you have 3-inch 

 pipe, this can be used. 



Each house should have 600 feet of 

 radiation ; i. e.. 600 feet of S-iTW'h ^inp 



cr 1,200 feet of l^^-inch pipe. The 300 

 feet of 4-inch pipe you have will only 

 give you about 350 feet of the 600 

 ueeded for one house. It will therefore 

 take about 500 feet of IV^-inch pipe in 

 addition to provide for one house. If 

 you intend using the 4-inch pipe it would 

 Lie well to arrange it in an independent 

 coil and supply it by an independent 

 riser from the boiler direct, rather than 

 attempt to carry both sizes on one riser. 

 A 2-inch riser from the boiler will be 

 sufficient for the 300 feet of 4-inch pipe 

 arranged in a coil or manifold. The 

 piping should be distributed as evenly 

 through the houses as possible and when- 

 ever practicable the flow pipes should go 

 from the boiler to the most distant point 

 in the houses before entering the radiat- 

 ing coils. 



I do not think you can use oil at $1.25 

 as cheaply as coal at $5. There is no 

 satisfactory arrangement for burning 

 crude oil on low pressure steam or hot- 

 water plants. With high pressure steam, 

 crude oil at 50 to, 75 cents per barrel 

 makes an economical fuel." L. C. C. 



MOVING VARIOUS PLANTS. 



£ want some advice in regard to mov- 

 ing some very large white ' lilacs and 

 Spiraea Van Houttei. They are in the 

 way in laying oiit a lawn and Will have 

 to be removed or destroyed. As I have 

 no otjier white lilacs I would like to i<e- 

 move these trees if I can: successfully do 

 it. Will some one suggest what time 

 would be best and the method of doing 

 it? 



There is also quite a large bed of 

 peonies in this yard that will have to be 

 removed. Will they bloom next spring 

 if they are carefully removed? Any 

 suggestions in regard to these questions 

 will be appreciated. 



Can I remove a large Crimson Bam- 

 bier? It has been trained in bush form 

 but is shaded by a large tree and it would 

 seem best to remove . it to a sunny loca- 

 tion. What time would be best? J. S.- 



If the lilacs are . yeij old it would be 

 far better to cut them down and secvire 

 strong young plants in their stead. If 

 the spirseai is moved it must be cut 

 b'ick severely in order to secure a good 



Fiel4 of C. W. Bruton Dahlias at the Peacock Co.'8, Atco, N. J. 



