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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



September 26, 1907. 



TheSlPERIOR 



IMPROVED INTERNAL-riRED STEEL BOILER 



Made ia 10 sizes, to heat from 2000 to 6500 feet of 4-ifich pipe. 

 No brick-wotk necessary; 'shipped on skids, all ready to move into 

 place and begin firing. Can be cleaned without letting the fire out. 

 All hubs made so they can be used for either cast-iron or steam pipe. 

 Tested at 25 lbs. pressure and warranted; can be used for low pressure 

 steam by adding steam drum. Best material) best workmanship. 

 Specially designed for greenhouse use; corrects the faults of other boilers. 

 Lightest boiler on the market capable of performing equal work. We 

 defy competition in prices on any boiler of equal capacity. 

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Long Distance Phone, 

 Monroe 1008 



CHICAGO 



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it would require five lines of 4-inch pipe. 

 Will you kindly let me know if this is 

 intended to mean five flows and five re- 

 turns or one flow and four returns? If 

 2-inch pipe were used, how much would 

 be required? J. Y. 



If the pipe is arranged as suggested, 

 with two lines under one bench and three 

 under the other, use a flow and return 

 under one and a flow and two returns 

 under the other. To heat the same house 

 by the use of 2-inch pipe, ten lines of 

 pipe will be necessary, placing a flow 

 and five returns under the wide bench 

 and a flow and three returns under the 

 narrow bench. With 2-inch pipe, the 

 flows can be run overhead if so desired, 

 instead of as suggested. L. C. C. 



TEST OF HEATING SYSTEM. 



Charles N. Hays is a Pittsburg heat- 

 ing engineer who came to Chicago for 

 the purpose of showing the western peo- 

 ple, who are large consumers of fuel, 

 that he can burn the western coals in a 

 manner to conform to the city smoke 

 regulations and upon an economical basis. 

 He purposed doing this with what is 

 known as the McClave system, which he 

 had installed in many Pittsburg plants 

 and which provides for the consumption 

 of smoke by means of automatically reg- 

 ulated forced draft. A set of deflecting 

 walls is built beneath the boiler for the 

 purpose of retarding the passage of the 

 heated gases and thereby getting the full 

 benefit of them. Recently Mr. Hays un- 

 dertook to interest the greenhouse people 

 north of Chicago and last week made a 

 test of his system under a boiler at Peter 

 Reinberg's which he had equipped at his 

 own expense for the trial. Frank S. 

 Peabody, president of the Peabody Coal 

 Co., a large producer of Illinois coals, 

 naturally is interested in any device for 

 extending the use of his grade of coal, 

 and was present with a number of own- 

 ers of near-by greenhouses. The Peabody 

 coal, costing $2.35 per ton, against $3.75 

 for Pocahontas, was used, with the re- 

 sult that the heating engineer figured 

 that on his test the McClave system pro- 



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The Standard 

 Steam Trap 



is acknowledged the best for the 

 florist because it is durable, and does 

 its work without trouble and annoy- 

 ance, saving its cost by the economy 

 in coal bills. 



E. HIPPARD, Youngstown, Ohio 



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duced heat for Mr. Reinberg at a cost 

 of slightly less than 4 mills per horse- 

 power per hour, and that under his old 

 system the cost was 6 mills per horse- 

 power per hour. At the same time the 

 eflSciency of the boiler was increased 

 from eighty horse-power to an average of 

 136 horse-power. Firing with a load of 

 200 pounds of coal the chimney smoked 

 less than half a minute, while firing with 

 any of the so-called smokeless coals the 

 duration of smoke would be several min- 

 utes. Laying aside the technical features 

 of the engineer's report of the test, he 

 assured Mr. Reinberg that there would 



be a saving of twenty-five per cent in his 

 fuel bills. Mr. Reinberg is said to have 

 last season expended $36,000 for coal. 

 He accepted the apparatus as fitted up 

 for the test and gave an order to at once 

 equip two other boilers. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



The September meeting of the New 

 Orleans Horticultural Society took place 

 at the residence of ex-President P. M. 

 Chopin. The most important business 

 transacted was the decision of having or 

 giving up a chrysanthemum fall show. 



