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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



August 20, 1908. 



lire fourteen feet ten inches from the 

 ground to the ridge. 



We expect to use li/l.-inch pipe, run- 

 ning the main feed under the walk in the 

 corridor house. This is about as far as 

 we have got with the plan, and if you 

 will give us information as to the neces- 

 sary amount of pipe we shall appreciate 

 it very much. T. F. & S. 



If you can save money by using I14- 

 inch pipe, it will answer your purpose 

 quite as well as IVi-inch pipe and be a 

 little easier to install. Each house to be 

 run on the carnation temperature can be 

 handled by using a 2-inch flow under the 

 ridge and twelve 1^-inch returns. The 

 rose house should have a 214-inch flow 

 and fifteen l^i-inch returns. The cor- 

 ridor will likely not require more than 

 four 11/4 inch pipes, in addition to the 

 heat from the main flow. I do not be- 

 lieve it will be wise to install less than 

 a 6-inch main flow, as it is evident you 

 contemplate adding more houses. Keep 

 the boilers well down, unless you are to 

 use a pump or trap for return water. 



L. C. C. 



PIPING A CARNATION HOUSE. 



Please inform me how to pipe a house 

 2(5x80 for carnations. The house runs 

 east and west, is five feet to the eaves 

 and twelve feet to the ridge, with two 

 feet of glass on the sides. The east end 

 also is glass, the west end being pro- 

 tected by a house. There will be five 

 benches the length of the house. I want 

 to use 1.14 -inch pipe for the returns 

 under the benches. The boiler-pit is four 

 feet below the surface at the west end. 

 The expansion tank is fifteen feet above 

 the boiler. The location is Ohio. 



Would the use of the Honeywell heat 

 generator allow us to use less and 

 smaller pipes throughout the system? If 

 so, what could be used? L. N. B. 



The house in question should be well 

 provided for by using one 3-inch flow 

 and eighteen li{.-incii returns, or two 2\<t- 

 inch flows and the sanu- number of re- 

 turns. The piping can be arranged so 

 as to place five lines of jupes under the 

 bench on the most exposed side; four 

 under the otiier outside bencli, and three 

 lines under each of the three interior 

 benches. 



1 know of no way to decrease the 

 amount of ladiation required for water 

 or steam at a given temperature. Tlie 

 amount of radiation varies according to 

 the temperature of the water or steam 

 contained. Anytliiiig which increases the 

 temperature of the fluid carried corre- 

 spondingly reduces the amount of radia- 

 tion required to maintain a desired tem- 

 perature. L. C. C. 



PIPING FOR ENLARGED HOUSES. 



Please state what piping must be added 

 to our present hot water system, in order 

 to properly heat our houses, which have 

 been enlarged. The houses have not been 

 lengthened, but have been nmde wider 

 and connected to each other. All the 

 present piping is under the benches. 

 What additional piping is needed will be 

 run up on the gutter posts, with return 

 coils under the benches. The location is 

 eastern Wisconsin. 



We have one rose house, 19x100, and 

 three carnation houses, 21x82, 26x82 and 

 24x82, respectively. The carnation houses 

 are on the north side of the rose house 

 and are all connected, but there is a par- 

 tition between tlie rose house and the 



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carnation houses. At the west end of 

 the houses, and extending, across their 

 entire width, is a shed, where the boilers 

 are. The east ends are double boarded 

 to a distance of three feet and a half 

 from the ground, with glass the rest of 

 tlie way. Tlie north wall has four feet 

 and a half of boards and three feet of 



glass. The south wall of the rose house 

 is only four feet high and is boarded up 

 entirely. The ridge of the rose honse is 

 twelve feet high. The ridges of the car- 

 nation houses are, respectively, fourteen 

 feet, fifteen feet six inches, and fourteen 

 feet nine inches high. 



The rose house has at present three 



