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56 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 16, 1908. 



SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS ^ 

 FOR HOT WATER HEATING 



SuperiorMachine&BoilerWorks 



186 W. Superior St., Chicago, 111. 

 Write for Prloaa and Catelocu* 



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United S lates Heaterf.ompany. 



DBTBOIT, MICH. 



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(ireeflhoase Heating. 



THE COAL MARKET. 



Florists who command the cash, and 

 most of them do, can make more than 

 the going rate for money by filling up 

 the coal bins now. This season more 

 than in preceding ones an advantage is 

 to be had by buying during the season 

 of slack demand. Indeed, an authority 

 in the coal trade deplores the present 

 tendency to cut prices on the ground 

 that buyers have learned to take only 

 those coals which have proved to produce 

 the desired results and will be willing to 

 pay usual prices for them a little later. 

 "The fact that a keen need for coal 

 will exist later on in the winter and that 

 prices then will be higher than they are 

 now does not seem to influence any buy- 

 ing at this low figure, ' ' says this author- 

 ity. "The people in general consequently 

 are willing to pay a higher price for coal 

 plater on if they can get the use of their 

 money for other purposes now. This in- 

 dicates, as it should, to the coal trade 

 that the sacrificing of values in order to 

 bring about a movement of coal is usu- 

 ally of no value and especially is this 

 true right now. Coal operators have had 

 this point impressed upon their minds 

 more and more in the last few years and 

 will probably come to realize the impor- 

 tance of the proposition later on that 

 there is no virtue in trying to force coal 

 on an unwilling market.'.' 



OVERHAUL THE PLANT. 



* ' A stitch in time saves nine, ' ' or even 

 ten, if it is in a greenhouse heating plant. 



In the last few years there has been 

 great improvement in the character of 

 the heating apparatus used by florists, 

 for it has come, to be realized that the 

 facilities for warming are about the most 

 important subject the grower has to con- 

 sider. In these days of close competition 





GET WISE 



to the fact 



you will 



by InstallinR The Martin RooklnK Grate. CoBts a little more than ordinary 

 grates, but the coal bums— it doesn't go Into the ashpit. 



Send to us for the names of nearby growers who have used this grate a year 

 or more. They will tell you to order The Blartln RooklnB Grate for the new 

 boilers to be put in this season. Write for catalogue and prices. 



MARTIN GRATE CO.,"iKrAL 



Send order now— we will make up the crates and hold until you say ship 



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XMPROVXD 8TKKI. RKTURM TUBULAR BOILXR, FOR 8TKAM AMD HOT WATER 



JOHNSTON HEATING CO. 



138 East 31*t Streat, NEW YORK 



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Hot Water Boilers 



Made by 



lUINOIS MALLEABLE IRON CO. 



539 Dinrsey Boilevatd, CIIICA60, 



Are noted for coal economy and 

 ^ood results generally. 



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it may easily happen that the efficiency 

 of the heating apparatus may spell loss 

 or profit: Without enough heat, properly 

 distributed and controlled, the stock will 

 not be of its best quality; and the dif- 

 ference in fuel consumed as between an 

 economical arrangement and an extrava- 



gant one will cat a big hole in the re- 

 ceipts. 



It is a far cry from the primitive flue 

 to the up-to-date systems now used in the 

 big, modern plants, like that of W. H. 

 Elliott, who circulates steam by gravity 

 through a half mile of pipe. The big 



