July 19, 190G. 



■ TTie Weekly Florists' Review. 



565 



Our Customers Talk For Us* 



CiiitisT MuNO, Evanston, 111. 



* We have had four of your boilers. The first gave us thir- 

 teen years' service, the second one eleven years, and the other 

 two were put in in the last two seasons. 



"We uted the first two hollers nine years before we had to 

 put in new tiues. We have not used any other boilers, but our 

 Leigbbors have other makes, and the life of their boilers is from 

 three to four years shorter. than ours. 



"We are satisfied with the boilers in every possible way.' 



Gkant Newport, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



"I bouRht a No. 2 boiler In 1902. Takes care of 7.000 sq. ft. of 

 glass; would take caie of 2,000 more. I have had a cast-iron 



boiler, but It broke down twice In four years, always in 

 the coldest weather. It broke down December 29, 1904, and X lost 

 all my stock In consequence- I have now two No. 2 Kroe- 

 scheli boilers, and do not worry about their breaking down. " 



Jacob Phillip, Rogers Park, 111. 



"I boupht a No. 10 boiler in 1901. Have 20,000 sq. ft. of glass. 

 We keep temperature at eodexrees in the coldest weather. X have 

 had one Kroeschell boiler 15 years, and the only repairs 

 were a set of tiues. Your boiler is so satisfactory tome that I do 

 not care to try any other. Please enter my order for another No. 

 8, delivered in July. " 



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One boiler (one fire) largest size, No. 14, will take care of 86,000 aquare feet of flaaa. 

 Boilers made of steel plate, not caat-iron. 



Shaking or stationary grates; any kind of fuel; hard coal, soft coal or wood. 



Flows and returns in number and size to suit the purchaser. 



Order now; we will ship the boiler when you want it and ask no pay until the boiler is shipped. 



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prevent too hot a nre. Still, I used in 

 tills last winter, a comparatively miltl 

 one, considerably more coal than I did 

 a year ago, seventy-five tons for one 

 liouse 36x80. Last year I used about 

 fifteen tons less and the winter was much 

 harder. 1 think I ought to have either 

 a narrower or higher chimney. Please 

 instruct me about this. J. L. 



The boiler in question, if capable of 

 supplying 3,500 feet of 4-inch pipe, 

 will be ample to care for the house 

 2(5x80 fe«t, and two houses, each 18x80. 

 The three houses would require only 

 about 2,000 feet of 4-inch pipe to heat 

 them. From what you say of the chim- 

 ney I judge it is too short; it can be 

 raised either by a steel or brick ex- 

 tension. It would also be well to pro- 

 vide a good damper for the pipe from 

 the boiler to the chimney to overcome 

 too heavy a draft during wind storms. 



L. C. C. 



PIPING FOR FOUR HOUSES. 



t have four greenhouses and would 

 like to know how many runs of 1^4 -inch 

 pipe it will take for' each one. They 

 are: One 20x60 feet, for palms; one 

 20x60 feet, for carnations; one 15x60, 

 for geraniums; one 15x25, for carna- 

 tions. The temperature never gets lower 

 than 4 degrees below zero. E. W. 



As the style of heating is not in- 

 dicated, I have estimated on the basis 

 of hot water at 180 degrees. If steam 

 IS used considerably less pipe will answer. 

 For the house 20x60 feet, for palms, a 

 21^-inch flow and eighteen li^-inch re- 

 turns will be necessary. To heat the 



house 20x60 feet, to be used for carna- 

 tions, a 2% -inch flow and sixteen 1^- 

 inch returns will be required. The house 

 15x60 feet, for growing geraniums, 

 should have a 2-inch flow and fourteen 

 1^-inch returns, while the house 15x25 

 feet can be heated with a 2-inch flow 

 and ten l^/i-inch returns. 



If steam is used, a 2-inch flow and 

 twelve 1^4 -inch returns will answer in 

 each house 20x60 feet, a 2-inch flow 

 and ten 1^4 -inch returns in the bouse 

 15x60 feet, and a 2-inch flow and ten 

 1^4 -inch returns in the house 15x25 

 feet. L. C. C. 



BOILER CAPAQTY. 



Will a twelve horse-power boiler, fifty 

 2-inch flues, heat three houses, two 

 11x75 and one 16x65, with hot water? 

 One end of one of the 75-foot houses 

 is banked to the eaves. I have three 

 3-inch openings for flow and return, and 

 carry a 3-inch riser to the top of each 

 house, to return in two 3-inch pipes 

 in one of the houses 11x75. The house 

 16x65 has one 4-inch and eight 1-inch 

 returns. In the other house 11x75 I have 

 one 4-inch and eight inch returns. Can 

 I connect city water pressure to the 

 returns near the boiler, or must I have 

 an expansion tank? I want 45 to 48 

 degrees in cold weather, in central Ohio. 



J. F. S. 



The length of the flues and the diam- 

 eter and height of the boiler shell are 

 not stated, and it is not clear whether 

 there are eight 1-inch pipes or an 8-inch 

 return in one of the houses 11x75. The 

 only point on which a definite answer 

 can be made is that if there are twenty- 



five or thirty pounds pressure on the city 

 system, this will answer as well as an 

 elevated expansion tank, if connection 

 is made in the main return near the 

 boiler by means of a small pipe, say 

 %-inch. L. C. C. 



BOILER AND PIPING. 



Can you tell us how to pipe the fol- 

 lowing: One house 11x60 feet, 3-foot 

 sides, double boarded, with paper be- 

 tween boarding; one house 20x100 feet, 

 six feet on the back, three feet on the 

 south side, to the eaves, with two feet 

 of glass and a bank of earth to the 

 jjlass on each side; one house 14x75, 

 tiiree feet of double boarding and six- 

 teen inches of glass in the sides. 



We are adding this year another 

 liouse and a propagating shed. The 

 former will be 31x200 feet, six feet 

 to eaves, two feet of 4-inch cement 

 and the rest glass on one side, the 

 other adjoining the propagating shed, 

 which is 5x100, with six feet of glass 

 in the roof. 



We intend to heat with steam, and 

 have a horizontal boiler, rated at forty 

 horse-power. It has forty-seven 3-inch 

 tubes eleven feet long, and the head is 

 forty-eight inches. Is it large enough 

 to heat the whole plant? Our old 

 houses are heated with 2-inch pipe, and 

 we have a lot of 1-inch pipe which we 

 want to use in the new houses, with 

 the steam system. L. & W. 



The boiler in question, if worked be- 

 tween five and ten pounds pressure, 

 will be suflScient to handle the houses 

 you now have and are building. One- 

 inch pipe can be used for heating with 



