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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 12, 1908. 



The Standard 

 of Excellence 



,C.b! 



"I^ocAhontas" 



J5M0KELE5S, 



A Symbol of 

 Quality 



POCAHONTAS 



TMOK HARK MOWTIIIID 



Our reristered Trade-Mark corerinr THB CELEBKATBD C. C. B. POCAHONTAS SBfOKEI.i:S8 COA& 



correspondB to the Sterlln«r Stamp on sUrer, as the Uolted States Geological Survey has made It Tlie Standard for 

 KradiuK all Steam Fuel. 



C. C. B. POCAHONTAS SMOKELESS 



Is the only American Coal that has been officially indorsed by the Governments of Great Britain, Germany 

 and Austria, and Is the favorite fuel with the United States Navy, which has used it almost exclusively 

 for many years. Uneqaaled for the Generation of Steam and Domestio Porpoaea* 



CASTNER, CURRAN & BULLITT, Sole Agents 



C. C. B. Pocahontas Smokeless Coal Branch Offices 



Main OfHce: Arcade BIdg. NeaveBuildln?, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



1 fiAiiik I Rtk ttlMa* Terry Buildlngr, Roanoke, Vt. 



1 south 1 Otn street, European Acts.— Hull, Blyth & Company, 



Philadelphia, Pennsylvania « Fenchurch Ave., London, B.On Bnc. 



Branch Offices 



1 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. 

 Citizen's Bank Bulldlnigr, Norfolk, Va. 

 Old Colony Building, Chica*ro, 111. 

 60 CongresB Street, Boston, Mass. 



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if practicable; if not, then at any point 

 in the main flow pipe. And no special 

 connection to the top of the boiler will 

 be needed and no overflow will result. 

 When your boiler begins to generate 

 steam, it will readily pass out through 

 the expansion tank instead of backing 

 the water out, as it will when connection 

 is made at or near the bottom of the 

 boiler K. G. Milford. 



FROM BOILER TO GRATES. 



In his bulletin on "How to Burn Illi- 

 nois Coal Without Smoke," L. P. Breck- 

 enridge says: 



"Having in mind the horizontal fire 

 tube boiler, the distance from the bottom 

 of the boiler to the grates should be 

 from thirty to thirty- four inches. At 

 this distance the flame from Illinois coal 

 will sweep along the bottom of the boiler 

 and much smoke will result. Still it must 

 be borne in mind that a large part of the 

 heat to be obtained from the burning of 

 the fixed carbon part of these coals is 

 transferred to the shell in the form of 

 radiant heat and for this purpose the 

 grate should be near the boiler. While 

 it is necessary, in preventing smoke, that 

 the flame be kept from the cooling sur- 

 faces of boilers, this cannot be accom- 

 plished by simply lowering the grates 

 under a horizontal fire tube boiler, as the 

 writer has unfortunately been incorrectly 

 quoted as having stated. For boilers of 

 this type some form of furnace extend- 

 ing partly or entirely in front of the 

 boilers and either hand fired or fed by 

 stokers of the Murphy type would un- 

 doubtedly furnish a satisfactory solution 

 to the smoke problem. But the smoke 

 problem is not usually satisfactorily 

 solved with Illinois coals and the hori- 

 zontal fire tube boiler. The small unit 

 hardly warrants an automatic stoker. 

 Desire for a cheap plant prevents any 

 special form of furnace and so it is that 

 this kind of a setting frequently proves 

 to be a troublesome smoker. ' ' 



Large leeks, a foot long or more, are 

 not possible by merely sowing the seed 

 and trimming out the plants. To get 

 large, whitened leeks it is necessary to 

 cultivate them much the same way as is 

 practiced with celery. The seed may 

 b"fe sown outdoors in the ordinary man- 

 ner, and then, when the plants are about 

 four inches high, they may be dibbled 

 into trenches, covering the base of the 

 leeks with soil as growth progresses 

 through the summer. If exhibition speci- 

 mens are desired, heavy feeding can be 

 safely resorted to. 



THE SUPERIOR 



Return Flue rire=Box Boiler 



This boiler 

 has given 

 better satis- 

 faction than 

 any other 

 boiler on the 

 market. 



Made In 

 8 sizes for 

 Hot Water 



t yi ' IS of these booKht and nsed by one gro-wer 

 ' ' 6 by anotber 



Send for new 



Catalogue 



and list 



of growers 



that are 



using 



this Boiler 



Ask the man that knows; the names are yours tor the asking of them 



Superior Machine & Boiler Worlis 



125 W. Superior St.. CHICAGO, ILL. 



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THE KROESCHELL BOILER 

 NOT CAST IRON 



HAS 



WIITEB 



FRONT 

 SIDES 

 TOP 

 BACK 



Meir Catalogue and prices on application. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co. 



51 Erie St., Chicago 



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THE JOHN DAVIS COMPANY 



Halsted, 22d and Union Sts., CHICAGO 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Reducing Valves, Back Pressure Valves, Steain Traps, Steam 6ooils 



This Is what one of our customers thinks of our Talves t 



Lincoln, III., January 8, 1906. 

 The John Davis Compant, Chicago, HI. 



Gentlemen:— You can strongly and unhesitatingly recommend the 

 "Eclipse" piston type reducing valve to floriata. We have two purchased 

 of you last year. We would not have them out for double then* cost and 

 find them as sensitive as a watch. We will be in Chicago soon to take up 

 the vacuum system with you. Tours truly, 



W. H. OuLLKTT & Sons, Flobists. 



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