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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



July 19, 1906. 



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 in steam pipes. With our Trap the 

 Boiler need not be set below the 

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FOR FIVE HOUSES. 



1 have put up five houses. One is 

 211/2x50 feet; the other four are 

 13^x50. They run north and south, and 

 a shed extends the whole length of the 

 north end. The large house has 4-foot 

 walls; the others 6-foot. All have 

 10-foot ridges. Will you please tell me 

 how large a boiler 1 need, and how 

 many and what size pipes, using hot 

 water? J. K. H. 



It would not be wise to install a hot- 

 water heater with a rated capacity of 

 less than 2,000 square feet of radiation. 

 The house 21%x50 feet can be heated 

 by a riser and ten 2-inch returns, and 

 each of the houses 131^x50 feet by a 

 riser and seven 2-inch returns. A 2-inch 

 riser will be ample ia each case. A 

 little more radiation should be placed 

 along the exposed sides than through the 

 middle, particularly in the outside 

 houses. L. C. C. 



HEATING TWO HOUSES. 



How many lines of 1-inch and 2-inch 

 pipe are required to keep the tempera- 

 ture to 65 degrees in zero weather, or 

 10 degrees lower, in two houses, each 

 24x186, built together, each sixteen feet 

 to the ridge? What size of boiler do 

 I need, using hot water? S. J. M. 



I do not think it would be wise to 

 attempt to heat these houses with hot 

 water and use the size of pipe you 

 suggest, i. e., 1-inch and 2-inch. In fact, 

 I believe it will be more economical for 

 a plant of this size to install a steam 

 rather than a hot water plant. If a 

 night fireman is kept, install a horizontal 

 tubular .boiler with sufficient capacity 

 to care for 4,000 square feet of radia- 

 tion. If hot water is to be used, get 

 a boiler rated to carry about 5,000 

 square feet of radiation. If steam is 

 employed, a 3-inch flow through each 

 house and thirteen 1 14 -inch returns will 

 be needed. If hot water is used, a 

 4-inch supply and twelve 2-inch returns 

 will be required for each house. 



L. C. C. 



BOILER AND CHIMNEY. 



I can buy a second-hand, cast-iron, 

 sectional boiler (hot water) seventy-two 

 inches long, fire-box 26x50. I believe the 

 whole boiler is five and a half feet high. 

 The plumber says it is rated at 3,500 

 feet, 4-inch pipe. Now will you tell me 

 approximately how much I could heat 

 with that size boiler under ordinary cir- 



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„ . Lincoln, 111., January 6, W06. 



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G'xtlkmen:— You can strongly and unhesitatingly recommend the 



Eclipse " piston type reducing valve to florists. We have two purchased 



of you last year. We would not have them out for double their cost and 



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the vacuum system with you. Yours truly, 



W. H. Gullett k Sons, Florists, 



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cumstances? I have one house at pres- 

 ent 26x80, twelve feet higli at the ridge. 

 1:0 sidelights anywhere, the south wall 

 is four feet high and the north wall five 

 feet. I intend to put up another me 

 18x80, half for roses, and half for ferns, 

 smilax, palms, etc. Would I not be able 

 in time to put up another one the same 

 size, and heat it with the same boiler? 

 That is my idea. I have an overhead 

 heating sy8t€m, 



I also have a chimney sixteen feet 

 high, twenty-two inches inside measure, 

 standing near a barn, about twenty-four 

 feet away, with the barn ten feet higher 

 than the chimney. The wind blows into 

 the chimHey so hard that my boiler room 

 used to be full of smoke everv time we 



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were blessed with a blizzard; we get 

 more than 30 degrees below zero here. 

 At the same time the draft was so good 

 1 could not open any door of the boiler 

 for draft; in fact, I had to have the 

 upper door partly or wholly open, de- 

 pending on the weather, in order to 



