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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Decehbbb 6, 1006. 



fireeohoase Beating. 



RADIATION. 



We have in view a horizontal steam 

 boiler with dimensions as follows: 

 Length, seven and one-half feet; diame- 

 ter, thirty inches; twenty-four 3-inch 

 flues ; grate surface, 30x40 inches. How 

 many feet of radiation will it care for? 



H. & C. 



The boiler in question, if set and used 

 as a return tubular boiler, will have a 

 capacity to care for about 1,600 square 

 feet of radiation. L. C. C. 



BIG TUBES. 



I have a boiler 4x18 with twelve 6-inch 

 tubes. Will there be any economy in 

 using this style boiler for heating green- 

 houses, either with steam or hot water? 

 How many square feet of radiation will 

 this boiler heat for zero weather or 10 

 degrees below zero? How many runs 

 of 2-inch pipe should I use on the side 

 walls of three or four connected even- 

 span greenhouses, each 35x150, side 

 walls five feet high? I am using 3-inch 

 and 3^,-ineh flow-pipe. Which system 

 is better, the gravity or pressure? 



W. E. B. 



While I have had no experience with 

 a boiler of this type, it is the pattern 

 quite extensively used on river boats and 

 in mills where wood fuel is employed. I 

 am inclined to believe it would prove sat- 

 isfactory for either steam or hot water, 

 perhaps better for hot water than for 

 steam. The boiler in question should 

 carry about 2,600 square feet of radia- 

 tion. The houses in question, 35x150 

 feet, should each have seventeen runs of 

 2-inch pipe if hot water is used at 180 

 degrees. For such a plant on a hot- 

 water basis I should not trust anything 

 but a pressure system, and even then a 

 circulating pump may prove necessary. 



Li. C C 



BUFFALO. 



A Good Thanksgiviog. 



Thanksgiving, that unique American 

 holiday, is past once more and never to 

 our recollection were we favored with 

 more beautiful weather; sunshine from 

 early morn until our globe turned too 

 far east to see the old gentleman, the 

 father and nourisher of all life. The 

 queen of autumn was in good demand 

 and those who had an abundance of fine 

 flowers reaped a liberal harvest. Some 

 of us were well supplied with good car- 

 nations and they found a ready sale 

 with people who preferred quality to 

 bulk. As usual, the sweet Viola ordorata 

 was in great demand, and why not? The 

 love-sick swain will not consider cost 

 when the tender passion disturbs his 

 maniy breast. Boses were in good sup- 

 ply. As the season advances Richmond 

 is winning favor. It has to be cut close, 

 but how lovely it grows, even to the 

 third and fourth day. We never had a 

 better Thanksgiving. I hope that a year 

 hence we shall have as good cause to 

 return thanks. 



At South Park. 



We journeyed out to the botanic gar- 

 dens a few days ago. Unfortunately 

 Prof. Cowell had not returned from his 

 duties as judge at Chicago 's great flower 



WILKS fiREENHOUSE HEATERS 



The Wilks Ghreenhouse Heaters 

 are all Steel Self-Feeders. 

 Will run 16 hours at a time 

 without attention. 



NO NIGHT FIREMAN REQUIRED 



Can be used with either 

 HARD OR SOFT COAL. 



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 C may be obtained at trilling cost If you will use a 



LEHMAN WAGON HEATER 



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C the plants. They burn X^lunan Coal, which costs lesn than 



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show; still we enjoyed the visit greatly. 

 We were in the company of young 

 George E. McClure, and when Tom 

 Fitzgerald, Mr. Cowell 's superintendent 

 of the conservatory, joined us there was 

 such a buzzing of botanical names of 

 orchids, cycads and other genera that I 

 succumbed and was carried to the near- 

 est drug store, where they gave me a 

 decoction of bromo seltzer, although I 

 had asked for an extract of bromeliacea. 

 This botanic garden is poorly supported 

 by our city fathers, yet it is one of the 

 finest ranges of glass in the country and 

 contains a splendid collection of eco- 

 nomic plants as well as showy and orna- 

 mental plants. With the funds at his 

 command Mr. Cowell has done wonders. 

 The chrysanthemum exhibition was 

 beautiful as well as instructive and 

 attracted large crowds of visitors, as 

 most free shows do. Botanic gardens 

 were not instituted for amusement. They 

 are for study and instruction, yet here 



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is to be found plenty to please the eye 

 alone, as well as the student who wishes 

 to become familiar with the vegetable 

 kingdom, be it a native oak, a humble 

 campanula, or a nepenthes of Sumatra. 

 W. S. 



Enclosed find check for $1 for the 

 Eeview for another year. It is essential 

 I should have it. — George Smith, Man- 

 chester, Vt. 



Randolph, Vt. — H. M. Totman was at 

 Burlington yesterday to read a paper, 

 "The Carnation, and How I Grow It," 

 before the Vermont State Horticultural 

 Society. 



