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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Mabch 1, 1906. 



The WhilMin Pottery Co. 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



Onr output ot Flower Pots is larger tban any concern In tbe. World 

 Our Stock is always Large and Complete 



Main Office and Factory. 



713 WHARTON STREET. PHILADELPHIA 



Warehouses: ^JERSEY CITY. N. J. LONG ISLAND CITYfNrY. 



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Oreenhoase Beating. 



DIFFERENCE IN COST. 



AVhat difference in the expense bill 

 for coal would there be between ht^ating 

 one even-span greenhouse forty to fifty 

 feet wide, 150 feet long, with four feet 

 of the side walls glass and three feet 

 double boarded and papered, or two 

 •even-sy)an greenhouses each twenty to 

 twenty-five feet wide, connected, no mid- 

 dle walls, each 350 feet long, with three 

 and one-half feet of side walls double 

 and papered? W. E. B. 



While tlie large even-span house will 

 •contain a volume of air about twenty-five 

 per cent greater than the two connected 

 bouses, yet I doubt if the large house 

 will require much more fuel than the 

 smaller houses. In fact, the same amount 

 of radiation would be supplied in either 

 case. Temperature changes will be less 

 rai)id in the large even-span house than 

 in the small houses because of the greater 

 volume of air contained. The cost of 

 constructing the large even-span house 

 ■will be slightly less than that of the two 

 smaller houses because of the saving of 

 one gutter and posts and the ventilating 

 •sash and lifting apparatus for one house. 



L. C. C. 



BETTER RESULTS NEEDED. 



We have a horizontal tubular boiler 

 forty-eight inches in diameter, four- 

 teen feet long without dome; forty 

 3-inch flues, brick set, jointed to 

 a stack fifty-six feet high and 

 thirty-four inches internal diameter 

 by a breeching eight feet long ■and eigh- 

 teen inches in diameter. Grates are four 

 feet square. There are two 4-inch open- 

 ings on top and thence two 4-inch pipes 

 ■supply the houses, returning to the boiler 

 at the rear end and also to a receiver 

 ■which is exhausted by a Bundy return 

 trap. The fuel used is Iowa steam nut 

 coal and we consume an enormous quan- 

 titv with but mediocre results. Our ob- 

 ject in writing is to find some method 

 by which we can get good results for less 

 money. The amount of glass surface to 

 heat is 13,240 square feet. Would a re- 

 ducing valve be any advantage (we have 

 a 4-inch Globe valve on each supply 

 pipe), or would a vacuum system give 

 better results? Is the boiler too small? 

 How many feet of pipe will it carry? 

 Iccidentally, is it necessary during the 

 dark days of winter to have heat under 

 the rose benches where solid benches are 

 used, or will sufficient piping along the 

 sides of the benches to keep the houses 

 at the proper temperature be enough? 



A. L. W. 



T judge from what you say of the glass 

 area in your plant that tlie boiler is 



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Manufacturers of Florists* Red Flower Pots* 

 Azalea Pots, Bulb and Fern Pans, Etc. 



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Send in your order today 

 for Syracnse Red Pots 

 and we will reciprocate by 

 prompt shipment of the pots 

 that add to plant value. 



Our ready packed crates 

 please progressive florists. 



Catalog: is ready. 

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 Syracuse. N. T. 



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Kramer's Pot Hanger 



For Sale by Wholesale Seedsmen, 

 Florists and Supply Dealers. 



Price, $1.00 per dos. by express. 

 Sample dos. by mail, $1.26. 



IN. KRAMER & SON. Cedar Rapids, la. 



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sufficient. If you had stated the size 

 of the houses and their relation to one 

 another I could have given more accurate 

 suggestions. The boiler in question is 

 about forty-five horse-povrer and capable 

 of caring for about 4,500 square feet of 

 radiation. I judge that 3,500 square feet 

 should be ample for your plant. The 

 only possible defect I can think of in 

 this plant is that possibly the boiler is 

 working under the disadvantage of too 

 little piping in the houses. Have you 

 sufficient radiation? The boiler is big 

 enough to give good results. The other 

 possible loss is in imperfect firing. 



I should not attempt to grow roses on 

 solid bods unless perhaps it were Beau- 

 tier. Most economical methods of rose 

 growing are those where ample -bottom 

 heat is used. The crop is too dependent 

 on the season when grown on solid beds. 

 Solid beds are all right for cool stuff 

 like carnations, violets and lettuce, but 

 not for roses of the class of Bride, 

 l^ridesmaid or Gate. The normal house 

 temperature for roses grown on solid 

 beds does not provide the root tempera- 

 lure the plants receive when maintained 

 at the same temperature with the plants 

 on elevated beds. There is no one factor 

 in rose growing of so much importance 

 as proper root temperature and mois- 

 ture. L. C. C. 



BACK AGAIN 



HEWS 



POTS 



"^NOUGH SAID EH 



WELL HOW MANY 

 THIS TRIP? 



A.H.HEWS&CO.INC. 

 CAMBRIDGE -MASS. 



RED 



Standard Flower Pots 



Price list and samples on application. 



PADUCAH POTTERY CO., lie. 



PADUCAH, KENTUCKY 



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BSD STAJTDABD POTS. 



Price per 1000, f. o. b. Harrison: 2-in., $2.25; 

 2M-ln., 12.70; 2]^-iu., $3.25; 3-ln., $4.26; m-\3X., 

 $5.60; 4-ln., $6.80; 6-in., $11.00; 6-in., $18.00. Cash 

 must accompany order. »^ 



BASBZSOH POTTaBY, Xarzlaoii. OUo. 



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TO STOP LEAKY JOINT. 



Will some one tell me how to stop a 

 leaky joint in a 4-inch hot-water pipe 

 without shutting down or draining out 

 the water? I have had no trouble with 

 ieaky joints before, although the plant 

 has been in tise six years. The trouble in 

 this case seems to be expansion and con- 

 traction of the line of pipe which pre- 

 vents the cement from setting. This 

 ]ine of pipe is seventy feet long and con- 

 sists of 4-inch boiler flues connected with 

 sleeve couplings and cemented the usual 

 way with oakum and Portland cement. 

 Tins particular joint now seems to take 

 up all the expansion and contraction 

 since it broke loose. C. J. B. 



You can remedy the defect in your 

 heating pipe by having a blacksmith 

 make you two clamps, each consisting of 

 two pieces of %xl-inch iron, shaped to 

 fit tightly about the boiler tubes. The 

 two Tl-shaped pieces of each clamp 

 should have a projecting })oint through 



