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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 16, 1908. 



The Jolin Davis Go. 



Balited, 88d and Union Street 



CHICAGO. ILL. 



Manufaoturern and Wliolasalera of 



Wrought Iron Pipe 

 Cast-iron Fittings 

 Valves, Pumps 

 Steam Traps 



and arerythlng; used in a Steam Plant 



A majority of the Houses are changing^ 

 fromWater to steam. The only pipe to use 

 is the genuine Wrougrbt Iron and "Byers" 

 is the best made. Write Us fob Prices. 



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CHIMNEY fAcTS. 



It often has been staged what rela- 

 tion should exist between the weight of 

 coal burned in a grate and the weight 

 and volume of air required for perfect 

 combustion. It is sometimes more strik- 

 ing, however, to bring out this point by 

 using a larger unit than the single pound. 

 Take, for instance, a 100 horse-power 

 boiler plant. Many such plants would 

 burn 500 pounds of coal an hour; the 

 air supplied would weigh 10,000 pounds 

 and the volume of this air at a chimney 

 temperature of 500 degrees would be 

 about 240,000 cubic feet. The chim- 

 ney for this plant must therefore dis- 

 charge nearly 10,500 pounds (5.22 tons) 

 of gases into the atmosphere each hour; 

 that is, for each ton of coal burned the 

 chimney will discharge from eighteen to 

 twenty-two tons of gases. To keep these 

 gases of the right color and composition 

 for ninety per cent of the time is the 

 problem to be solved, not only by flo- 

 rists in residence districts, but by those 

 who want to keep their glass clean. 



Chimneys will still be needed when the 

 Bo-called smcJice problem is solved. The 

 popular solution consists in changing the 

 color of the gases flowing from the 

 chimney from black to a light gray. At 

 least, this is all that the public and 

 the smoke inspector will demand. But 

 even when this problem is well solved, 

 our chimneys must continue to discharge 

 immense volumes of heated gases, and 

 these gases will often carry with them 

 fine particles of ash which cannot be 

 burned; all of which may produce some- 

 thing of that disagreeable haze which 

 floats over manufacturing cities. The 

 dense black smoke from chimneys is cer- 

 tainly a nuisance. It can be stopped for 

 a.bout ninety per cent of the time, and 

 if this is accomplished a most wonder- 

 ful improvement will be observed in the 

 atmosphere. 



If smoke is not largely prevented it 

 will be because of laxity in carrying 

 out the provisions of the law, combined 

 with the indifference of owners, rather 

 than because of a lack of fuAaces and 

 boiler settings which are available for 

 successfully burning bituminous coal 

 without smoke. 



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LEBANON, IND. 



Paul O. Tauer's greenhouses, including 

 the stock, were completely destroyed by 

 fire April 8. The blaze started from 

 some unknown source in the cold storage 

 room and spread rapidly to the remainder 

 of the structures. The fire department 

 was slow in arriving, being delayed by 

 the muddy condition of the roads and by 



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