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The Weekly Florists* Review, 



August 13, 1908. 



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We shall show a Double-acting Deep Well Pumping^ Engine, and a Double-acting Shallow Well Pumping 

 Engine, taking water from a well and working direct into the pipe line. 



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(ireeflhoiise Heating. 



FOUR CONNECTED HOUSES. 



I have four houses, connected. Each 

 house is 21x110 and seven feet to the 

 gutter, with two feet of side glass on 

 the outside houses. All the houses have 

 raised benches. The south gables are 

 glass and the north gables are protected 

 by service buildings. How many lines of 

 1^-inch pipe will be needed and how 

 should they be arranged to heat these 

 houses to 60 degrees in zero weather, 

 in this Wisconsin climate? What size 

 of boiler should be installed? The boiler 

 will be located on the level of the green- 

 house floor. What device should be in- 

 stalled to return condensation to the 

 boiler? Kindly state what size of pipe 

 should leave the dome of the boiler and 

 what size the risers should be. 



E. H. O. 



The bank of houses in question can 

 be heated by using a 2 1^ -inch flow under 

 the ridge of each house, with thirteen 

 114 -inch returns in each of the exposed 

 houses, placing the odd pipe under the 

 bench nearest the outside wall, and with 

 twelve 114 -inch pipes in each of the two 

 center houses. If the boiler is tapped 

 for a 4-inch flow it will be adequate and 

 the main return need be only 1^-inch or 

 2-inch, which, under the construction, 

 will have to be discharged into a hot 

 well or receiving tank, from which the 

 condensed water can be returned to the 

 boiler by a return steam trap or by a 

 pump driven by electricity, gas or steam 

 power. L. C. C. 



TWENtV-THREE-FOOT HOUSE. 



I wish to heat a house 23x100 with hot 

 water to 50 degrees when the tempera- 

 ture drops to 20 degrees below zero. One 

 side and end are exposed. The boiler is 

 in a pit in one end of the house. I have 

 11/^ -inch and 2-inch pipe. Will four 2- 

 inch flows and sixteen l^^-inch returns 

 on the side walls be enough, or would it 

 be better to run two flows of 21,^ -inch or 

 3-inch pipe instead of the 2-inch? 



J. O. G. 



The sixteen l^/^-inch returns should be 

 ample with a boiler temperature of 180 

 degrees. Two 2i^-inch flows will be suf- 

 ficient to supply these returns, and in my 

 judgment will be more desirable than four 

 2-inch flows. L- C. C. 



ONE CARNATION HOUSE. 



I have placed my order with the Mon- 

 inger Co. for a new house, 27x100, for 

 carnation growing, running east and west, 

 but I do not know how many 2-inch 



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Gentlkmen:— You can strongrly and unhesitatinrly recommend ths 

 "Eclipse" piston type reduclnr valve to florlats. We have two purchased 

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

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

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pipes will be required to heat this house. 

 I will have five raised benches. My 

 boiler is an Ideal No. 62 hot water boiler. 

 My present house is 9x80, and I use it 

 for chrysanthemums and bedding plants. 

 It is also connected with the same boiler, 

 as it extends along the north side of my 

 lot. The greenhouse to be built mil 

 be on the south side. My lot is 80x100, 

 and I must bring the heat from the 

 boiler at the northwest corner. Please 

 give me information as to how to pipe 

 this house, using some 2-inch pipe which 

 I have on hand. My location is Utah. 



B. V. D. S. 



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question, as the location of' the new house 

 is not clearly stated. While this will 

 have no bearing on the piping of the 

 house, it will have a decided influence on 

 the efficiency derived from the fuel used. 

 The boiler should be as close as possible 

 to the house, as the length of the house 



