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The Weekly Horists' Review. 



DaCBUBBB 12, 1907. 



THE SUPERIOR 



Improved Internal-Fired Steel Boiler 



Made in 10 sizes, to heat from 2000 to 6500 feet of 4-inch 

 pipe. No brick-work necessary; shipped on skids, all 

 ready to move into place and begin firing. Can be cleaned 

 without letting the fire out. AH 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 



Eressure steam by adding steam drum. Best material; 

 est 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. Investigate. Send for new illustrated cata- 

 logue, just out. 



SUPERIOR MAGHIME AND BOILER WORKS 



189-138 W. Superior Street 



CHICAGO 



Long Distance Phone Monroe 1006 



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leading from the boiler-room to the 

 walks of the greenhouse, on a level with 

 the walks. The boiler-room is two feet 

 below the surface of the ground, I 

 have a vertical boiler, capable of 100 

 pounds of pressure. It has two open- 

 ings for l^/^-inch pipe. 



Please tell me how much pipe is 

 needed for these houses, here in Ohio, 

 and how to put it in for best results. 



G. W. 



My advice is to heat the plant in ques- 

 tion with hot water instead of steam. 

 It is too small to economically use steam, 

 unless you have automatic diaphragms 

 to regulate the drafts and dampers, 

 which can of course be used on an up- 

 right tubular boiler, but which as a rule 

 work best on a magazine or self -fed type 

 of boiler. I will state the piping for 

 both systems of heating and you may 

 choose. 



Steam: Carry a 2-inch riser under the 

 ridge of each house from the boiler to 

 the far end and return by eight 1-inch 

 pipes, six on the outside wall and two 

 on the middle partition of each house. 

 Hot water: Use a 2-inch flow as above, 

 and eight 1%-inch returns, distributed 

 as above stated, six on the outside walls 

 and two on the partition in each house, 

 thus making sixteen lines of 1-inch 

 steam pipe in addition to the flow pipes 

 for the two houses; or sixteen li^inch 

 pipes arranged in like manner for the 

 hot water plant. For hot water an ex- 

 pansion tank should be carried twelve to 

 fifteen feet above the highest point of 

 the piping in the houses and connected 

 to the main return close to where it en- 

 ters the boiler. You cannot run the 

 plant on a steam basis unless you sink 

 the boiler so the returns in the house are 

 at least two feet above the water line 

 of the boiler, while the hot water will 

 work without lowering the boiler. 



L. G. G. 



The Eeview will send Smith's Mum 

 Manual, postpaid, for 40 cents. 



I AM much taken with the Review; 

 I think it is a fine weekly for florists. — 

 M. F. Kelsey, Worcester, Mass. 



THE KROESCHELL BOILER 

 NOT CAST IRON 



HAS 



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FRONT 

 SIDES 

 TOP 

 BACK 



Maw Catalosrue and prices on application. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co. 



SI Erie St., Chicago 



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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, Youngstowfi, Ohio 



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DALLAS, TEX. 



A jolly party of three, comprising 

 Eugene Corley, the genial private secre- 

 tary to Col. Green, Alex. Miller, super- 

 intendent of the Green Floral & Nursery 

 Co., and the writer, took a spin out to 

 inspect the comparatively new plant of 

 this hustling firm. It was a grand 

 afternoon and as we whizzed along, be- 

 tween gasps for breath and holding on 

 to the side of our express, I had some 

 chance of noting what great progress 

 has taken place in this foremost Texas 

 city during the last decade. 



Soon the Green plant came into view 

 and the first thing that I noted was the 



absence of the immense chimney stack 

 that is usually seen. Smoke consumers 

 are used. There are tanks for softening 

 water,^ an ice machine and refrigerator 

 vaults^ There is a boarding house, with 

 separate rooms for the help. There are 

 200,000 square feet of glass. The houses 

 average 28x200 feet, with cement walls, 

 tile drainage and solid beds. This is 

 recognized as the only successful method 

 of growing roses and carnations in this 

 semi-tropical climate. To see the stock 

 growing and the cut arranged both in 

 the storage vaults and in the shipping 

 rooms in town, one could hardly realize 

 that he was in a comparatively new 



