FKBBUAKY 8, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



779 



A House of White Cloud Carnation Grown by Wietor Bros*, Chicago, W^here it Seems Perfectly at Home. 



three fires and two systems of heating. 

 Either put it all on a steam or a hot 

 water basis and get adequate boilers to 

 do the work. The patchwork system you 

 have planned will give you trouble and 

 will prove more expensive to handle than 

 will a single system. 



Your house No. 4 can be heated by a 

 2-inch riser running under the ridge and 

 returning by twelve 1^4 -inch returns. 

 House No. 5 should have a 2-inch riser 

 under the ridge and seven 1 14 -inch re- 

 turns, while house No. 6 will require ten 

 114-inch pipes supplied from a branch 

 from the 2-inch riser running through 

 house No. 5. House No. 7 requires 110 

 square feet of radiation which can be 

 supplied by three runs of 2-inch pipe. 

 House No. 8 if piped with 2-inch pipe 

 will require at least six lines of pipe. 

 Houses Nos. 9 and 10 will each require 

 four lines of 2-inch pipe, while house No. 

 11 should be provided with three lines of 

 2-inch pipe. This is all based on the 

 water in the boiler being maintained at 

 li)<j degrees. L. C. C. 



BOILER CAPAQTY. 



What rated capacity should a boiler 

 be for heating with hot water to a tem- 

 perature of 60 degrees with the tempera- 

 ture outside 20 degrees below zero, a 

 greenhouse, 20x70 feet, east end and 

 south wall glass, and how should the 

 piping be arranged? I expect to add 

 two more houses of the same size in the 

 future. Would it be advisable to get a 

 sectional boiler, and add sections as 

 needed; or, would it be better to get a 

 boiler large enough for all at first, and 

 ^hat capacity boilel- would it require 

 for all three houses? M. J. B. 



house, a boiler rated to carry 800 feet of 

 radiation will be sufficient, and when all 

 three houses are completed the boiler for 

 the whole plant should have a rated ca- 

 pacity for about 2,000 square feet of 

 radiation. A boiler with about 250 

 square feet of heating surface will 

 finally be needed, although one with 100 

 square feet of heating surface will pro- 

 vide for the one house. The most econom- 

 ical plan, all things considered, would 

 probably be to install a boiler of suffi- 

 cient size in the beginning, particularly 

 if the additional houses are to be erected 

 within the next year. L. C. C. 



TWIN CITIES. 



The one house 20x70 feet to be carried 

 'it 60 degrees during severe weather 

 should be provided with a 2 1/^ -inch flow 

 pipe and eleven 2-inch returns; the flow 

 to be carried under the ridge and the 

 returns either under benches or along 

 side walls. 



Either plan mentioned can be success- 

 fully employed to provide the necessary 

 boiler capacity. At present, with one 



Trade the past week has kept up tol- 

 erably well notwithstanding the fact that 

 we have very changeable weather; at this 

 writing the thermometer is about zero 

 and from present indications will be much 

 colder, which, if anything, is considered 

 much better for the trade than warm 

 weather is at this time of the year. A 

 bright day will always ^ring out a 

 number of Greeks on the streets, which 

 cuts into the trade to some extent. Stock 

 has been coming in very good. Koses are 

 all right, but unless we have some sun- 

 shine will no doubt be scarce again 

 as they were last week. Carnations have 

 been coming in fairly well, but our grow- 

 ers have not as yet got them to a point 

 where they can be favorably compared 

 with what are being shipped in; whether 

 it is the lack of glass or not having 

 planted a sufficient number, it is hard 

 to say, but to be frank they must ad- 

 mit that what they are cutting are not 

 as good or as large as those coming in 

 from outside points. Bulbous stock is 

 plentiful; some very fine early varieties 

 of tulips are seen. There are, however, 

 more Yellow Prince and ua Reine than 

 all other varieties. Romans and Paper 

 Whites are also plentiful. Prices are 

 maintained nicely by the trade. Plant 

 sales are small, although all dealers have 

 some good flowering stock. Some very 

 nice azaleas, Dutch hyacinths, tulips in 

 baskets and flats are to be seen, but are 



acknowledged to be slow sale. Harrisii 

 lilies in small numbers are noticed but 

 are of course all used in funeral work, 

 tlie demand about equaling the supply. 



Minneapolis. 



The department stores that handle cut 

 flowers report good business the past 

 week, and they are getting good fair 

 prices. Donaldson's is doing an im- 

 mense business and as this is one place 

 tliat uoes not handle cheap merchandise, 

 it is able to do business with some of 

 our wealthiest citizens, but as a rule, 

 that class of trade wants to deal with 

 the best florist. 



The best grade of John Monson's new 

 rose, Miss Kate Moulton, is in the great- 

 est demand and is easily sold at a good 

 price. 



O. C. Swanson reports good business 

 and believes in getting good prices. Even 

 when stock is plentiful he maintains the 

 figure. It is his policy to throw away 

 some stock rather than cut prices, but 

 the experienceof nearly all is that a re- 

 tailer who buys his supply from day 

 to day rarely throws away much. 



St. PauL 



±j. L. May & Co. have had considerable 

 funeral work the past week and report 

 only fair sales for social functions. 



C. F. Vogt was remembered by a num- 

 ber of florists Saturday night. They 

 called at his home for a good time and 

 they had it. C. Bussjaeger appeared on 

 the scene with his two daughters and his 

 f;uitar and proceeded to make things 

 lively. After partaking of the good 

 things to drink they proceeded to dance 

 and kept it up until 3 a. m. Songs 

 were sung by Bussjaeger as he used to 

 sing them in the Fatheriand. A lunch 

 was served. The florists present were: 

 Otto Hiersekorn, Wm. Strehlow and 

 bride, H. Puvogel and wife, C. Buss- 

 jaeger and daughters. 



E. F. Lemke intends building two 

 houses this spring to his Snelling avenue 

 range. 



Holm & vjison intend adding some to 

 their plant. Felix. 



