

The Weekly Rorists* Review, 



March 5, 1908. 



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fireeohoose Heating. 



USE OF A REDUQNG VALVE. 



"Will you please give us some informa- 

 tion about a reducing steam valve. Does 

 it save fuel? We are heating two dwell- 

 ings with the same boiler with which 

 we heat our greenhouses. As we now 

 operate the plant, we have separate lines 

 for the dwellings. The condensation 

 from the greenhouses is returned to the 

 boiler with Morehead traps, but the con- 

 densation from the dwellings goes to 

 waste, because, if put on the same line 

 with the greenhouses, the pressure is not 

 equal; therefore the greenhouses force 

 the water into the dwellings. Would a 

 reducing valve overcome that, so we could 

 bring all the condensation back into the 

 boiler f S. T. H. 



I do not think you can use a reducing 

 valve to accomplish what you desire. 

 These valves are chiefly useful when 

 employed on high pressure steam lines 

 from which low pressure heating is to be 

 worked. I judge from what you say that 

 your difficulty can be entirely overcome 

 by carrying a small independent return 

 from the dwelling to the hot well from 

 which the trap draws its supply. 



L. C. C. 



CAPAQTY OF BOILER. 



I have a boiler sixty inches in diam- 

 eter and sixteen feet long, containing 

 fifty 4-inch flues. Will this boiler eco- 

 nomically heat, by steam, seven houses 

 20x160 feet and five houses 20x140 feet, 

 in the climate of New Mexico! The 

 houses will be connected and will be 

 seven feet high at the side walls and thir- 

 teen feet at the ridge. One end of each 

 house will be glass to within three feet 

 of the ground, and the side walls of the 

 outside houses will have four feet of 

 glass. The houses are intended chiefly 

 for carnations. B. H. I. 



Yes, I think the boiler in question has 

 sufficient capacity to carry your houses 

 at a temperature of 50 degrees. I be- 

 lieve, however, you would have a more 

 satisfactory heating plant if you would 

 use two forty horse-power boilers instead 

 of the one ninety horse-power. Much of the 

 time one forty or fifty horse-power boiler 

 would do your work, and when extra heat 

 was needed the second boiler could be put 

 into commission. Such a plan would be 

 more economical of fuel than the use of 

 a single large boiler. L. C. C. 



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Hundreds of our traps are in use in 

 greenhouses througrhout the country. 

 They can do for you what they are 

 doing for others— Every pipe in your 

 steam system of equal beat. Write 

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TWO CARNATION HOUSES. 



We have an oruinary steam boiler 

 which is four feet long and contains 

 twenty-eight 3 -inch flues, with the fire- 

 box imm(>diately under the boiler. Would 

 this heat two carnation houses, each 

 18x80 feet, with one glass gable in each? 

 We want to heat with water. Here in 

 Texas we seldom have weather lower than 

 20 degrees above zero. We figure on us- 

 ing two overhead flows and six returns 

 under the benches in each house, all of 

 2-inch pipe, because we can get this size 

 very cheap. Would this be economical, 

 or would it be better to get 3-inch pipe 

 for the flows? B. F. C. 



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A majority of the Houses are changing 

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I judge that it would be best to place 

 2-inch returns and one 2-inch flow in 



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each house. The boiler should be just 

 about large enough to heat these build- 

 ings. L. C. C. 



PIPING IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



I intend to build two greenhouses, 

 20x70 feet each, five feet high at the 

 sides and with the roof three-quarter 

 pitch. The houses will run east and west. 

 The wall on the north side will be con- 

 crete, the middle wall open and the south 

 wall- glass three feet from the top. On 

 the west end a shed will be built extend- 

 ing the full width of the two houses. 

 I wish to heat with hot water. My boiler 

 is a ten horse-power, upright flue boiler, 

 used for steam. The boiler-house will 

 be at the northwest corner. 



Now, what size of main should I run 



