March 8, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review 



1063 



Establishment of J. F. Windr, St. Louis, Mo. 



bottom of the chamber beneath the hot- 

 bed, is spaced from the latter and is ar- 

 ranged at an inclination, the distance 

 from the conduit to the hotbed gradually 

 decreasing as the distance from the fire 

 increases. The outer portion of the heat- 

 conduit is provided with lateral dis- 

 charge-openings 16, which permit the 

 heat to enter the space beneath the hot- 

 bed. By inclining the heat-conduit and 

 by providing the discharge apertures 

 or openings at the outer portion thereof 

 the plants located adjacent to the heater 

 or furnace are prevented from receiving 

 too much heat and those remote from the 

 heater or furnace are afforded a suffi- 

 cient amount of heat. The heat escaping 

 from the lateral outlets enters the cham- 

 ber or space and heats the air within. 

 This chamber or space tapers transversely 

 and extends close to the sides of the bed. 

 The conduit is connected at its upper or 

 outer end with an outlet or escape pipe 

 17, having a damper 18. By adjusting 

 the damper and the cap 11 the draft may 

 be controlled and the apparatus may be 

 supplied with fuel in the evening, and it 

 will not require attention until the next 

 morning. 



PIPING FOR EXTRA HOUSE. 



I have a house 20x28 feet and wish to 

 put up one 16x22 feet for carnations. 

 I have a steam boiler, rated at 350 feet 

 of radiation. Now, can I safely heat a 

 house of 16x22 feet? I want to grow car- 

 nations only in the house 16x22 feet and 

 must have enough heat to keep 45 de- 

 grees to 50 degrees in zero weather. 

 Please let me know how to pipe the 

 house 16x22 feet. Can I branch off of 

 the main flow? The main flow now is 

 2-inch. I can use 3-inch flow and di- 

 vide to two 2-inch. S. J. H. 



The boiler you have should be large 

 enough to care for both houses. The 

 house 20x28 feet requires about 160 



square feet of radiation and the house 

 20x22 feet should have about 110 square 

 feet of radiation. One 2-inch flow pipe 

 should be large enough for the two 

 houses. 



A 1%-inch flow under the ridge of 

 the house 16x22 to the far end, return- 

 ing by fourteen 1-inch pipes distributed 

 under the benches, will provide the re- 

 quired radiation. If l^-inch pipes are 

 used for returns eleven lines of pipe will 

 be required. L. C. C. 



SIZE OF BOILER. 



Can I successfully heat a house 22x75 

 with hot water, using 2-inch or 2i/i-inch 

 flows and IVt-inch and liA-inch or 2-inch 

 returns? It has been suggested to me 

 to make the highest point in a hot-water 

 system next to the shedding and not at 

 the farthest end of house. Which is 

 best? What size horse-power boiler 

 would it require to heat three houses, two 

 33x120 feet and one house 22x175 feet, 

 hot-water to be used; temperature re- 

 quired, 50 degrees to 55 degrees in zero 

 weather? All the houses have two feet 

 of glass in the sides and are not con- 

 nected by gutters, each being separate. 



H. H. G. 



If your houses are so arranged that the 

 boiler plant can be located at the center 

 of the houses instead of at one end, the 

 long houses can be heated by hot-water. 

 If it is necessary to locate the boiler at 

 the end of the houses, I should not at- 

 tempt to heat them with hot-water on a 

 gravity system. The houses 120 feet long 

 could be successfully handled in this 

 way, but the house 175 feet long is too 

 long to successfully handle under a hot- 

 water system Avith the boiler at the end 

 of the "house. If the boiler can be lo- 

 cated at the center of the house the 

 length of the flow for the hot-water will 

 be within the 100-foot limit, which is 

 considered the safe limit. In any event 



I should not attempt to use 1^-inch 

 radiating pipes. This is a good size for 

 steam, but it is the minimum size for 

 hot-water and should only be employed 

 in short coils, fifty feet or less. 



The risers for the houses 120 feet long, 

 if the boiler is at one end, should be 

 3 I/O -inch for each house, returning by 

 seventeen 2-inch pipes in each house. The 

 floAv pipe in the 175-foot house should be 

 4-inch and the returns fourteen in num- 

 ber, if 2-inch pipe is u.sed. If the houses 

 are heated from a boiler located at the 

 center of the range, the same amount 

 of radiation will be required, but a 

 2 1,4 -inch riser will carry either end of 

 the houses 120 feet long, while a 3-inch 

 flow or riser will carry either end of the 

 houses 175 feet long and will give a 

 more uniform distribution of heat and 

 make the houses more dependable during 

 severe weather. In regard to the slope of 

 the flow pipe, use it either way you like, 

 my preference, however, is for the high 

 point at the far end of the system. Witb 

 an elevated expansion tank of ample 

 size either an uphill or a downhill syeteni 

 ?an be made to work all right. L. C. C. 



THE WINDT PLACE. 



The ace«tnpanying illustration is from 

 a photograph of the new show house of 

 .1. F. Windt, St. Louis. The front af- 

 fords opportunity for a very good dis- 

 play and if the virtue usually credited 

 to an attractive window is a reality here 

 is a case in which it is at fullest ad- 

 vantage. The photograph was by Ru- 

 dolph Windt. 



Baltimore, Md. — Arthur Abraham, of 

 Fjiborty road, has gone out of businesa. 



i .ToLiET. Ir.L.— The Will County Horti- 

 I cultural Association held its first meeting 

 j February 24. C. E. Finley, the pot wash- 

 er and lawn sweeper man, was chosem 

 1 president. 



