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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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AuacsT 20, 190a. 



dreeohonse Heating. 



Greenhouse owners everywhere are in- 

 vited to submit their heating troubles to 

 the Review. Give all the details and 

 we will give an expert's opinion free of 

 cost to you. 



JOINTS IN CAST-IRON PIPE. 



Will you kindly give directions for 

 making a cement joint with red lead and 

 oakum, or any other good cement joint 

 for cast-iron pipe! W. J. S. 



A good paste for calking cast-iron 

 joints with oakum is made by using equal 

 parts of red and white lead mixed with 

 boiled oil. Make the paste thick, thor- 

 oughly saturate the oakum and drive it 

 in tight. Let it set well before putting on 

 the water. L. C. C. 



THREE COLORADO HOUSES. 



In the accompanying illustration of 

 my place the boiler house will be seen 

 covering the north end of the house. 

 House No. 1 is 18x75 feet, side walls 

 four and a half feet high, with eighteen 

 inches of glass .for about sixty feet on 

 the east side. It is ten and a half 

 feet to the ridge. House No. 2 is con- 

 nected to the south end of No. 1. Its 

 walls are five and a half feet high, with 

 eighteen inches of glass in the east side. 

 This house is 19x60 feet and eleven and 

 a half feet to the ridge. The office cov- 

 ers the south end of No. 2, with the ex- 

 ception of a small corner. We have four 

 2-inch flows, with six 2-inch returns 

 through No. 2, and halfway down No. 1, 

 and would like your opinion on how much 

 more piping is needed to keep 55 de- 

 grees, when the temperature is 20 degrees 

 below zero outside. We have four 



The Standard 

 Steam Trap 



Is acknowledgred the best for the 

 florist becauBe it in durable, and does 

 its work without trouble and annoy- 

 ance, Baving its cost by the economy 

 incoalblllB. 



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1 and the new house called No. 3? There 

 would be glass gables to within three 

 feet of the floor line. Should we put the 

 returns under the benches? Our boiler is 

 fifty horse-power. L. A. D. 



If I were arranging the piping in these 

 houses I should carry a 3^ -inch flow 

 from the boiler under the ridge to the 

 far end of house No. 1 and there take off 

 the necessary 2-inch branches to supply 

 four manifolds, each carrying three 2- 

 inch returns, or twelve 2-inch returns for 

 the house. House No. 2 should have a 

 2%-inch flow, which would be a continua- 

 tion of the 3^-inch flow pipe in house 

 No. 1. To complete the piping in house 

 No. 2, use four manifolds of three 2-inch 

 pipes, one under each bench, the same as 

 in house No. 1. For house No. 3 I would 

 suggest the use of an independent 3-inch 

 flow from the boiler, under the ridge of 



Plant in O>lora4o to be Added To. 



benches in each house. There is one 

 flow and return under each side bench, 

 the balance under the middle benches. 



We are going to build on the east side 

 one house sixteen feet wide, six feet to 

 the gutter, with three feet of glass on 

 the east side. There will be glass on the 

 west side ''above the gutter of the old 

 houses. The new house will be about 

 twelve feet to the ridge. Would two 2*^- 

 inch flows near the gutters be sufficient 

 to supply the house, and how many re- 

 turns will be needed? It would require 

 about the same temperature. How should 

 we regulate the flows between house No. 



the house rather than along side walls, 

 and the installation of ten 2-inch returns 

 arranged under the benches. These di- 

 rections contemplate the use of hot water 

 at 180 degrees. L, C. C. 



HEAT FOR SIX HOUSES. 



We want someone to give us a plan 

 for heating our range of six houses. 

 Three of the houses are for carnations. 

 They are each 22x100, and run east and 

 west. At the east end of these is a cor- 

 ridor house, nmning north and south and 

 extending about fourteen feet north of 



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the main part of the range. This house 

 is 10x80 and will be used for smilax. At 

 the north end of it is the boiler-house. 

 Running east from this corridor house are 

 two rose houses, each 22x100. The houses 

 have 8-foot iron gutter posts and meas- 



