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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



September 10. 1908. 



bouse main return will be ample, if well 

 graded. With the slope you have, you 

 should be able to work out a first-class 

 gravity plant. L. C. C. 



TWO CONNECTED HOUSES. 



I have two connected houses, running 

 east and west, the south one 8x50 and 

 the other 24x50, open between, and 1 

 wish to heat them with steam, using 1- 

 inch pipe. I propose arranging the pipes 

 as follows: Five runs under the north 

 outside bed; five runs under the next 

 raised bed, which is five feet eight inches 

 wide; two runs on each side of the cen- 

 ter or solid bed, to be used for callas, 

 smilax and sweet peas; four runs on the 

 posts between the houses, under the gut- 

 ter and over a 7-foot solid bed, to be 

 used for vegetables, and five runs under 

 the outside bed at the south. The height 

 of the north wall is five feet, with no 

 glass. The height of the south wall is 

 four feet four inches, with twenty inches 

 of glass. There is glass in the gables to 

 within thirty inches of the ground. 



I have a twenty horse-power tilbular 

 boiler. Would it be more economical to 

 get a smaller boiler? I can get a six 

 horse-power tubular boiler here for $35, 

 in good repair, but I propose doubling 

 my glass area next summer. The boiler 

 is to be on the level of the floor of the 

 greenhouses. I also propose running my 

 flow to the far end of the house and 

 back to the near end, as all returns flow 

 to the west and I have the boiler at the 

 east end of the house. 



The temperature outside occasionally 

 falls to 30 degrees below zero in this 

 northern Wisconsin climate. I wish to 

 grow carnations and general stock. Are 

 my plans right t C. A. H. 



The amount of piping you propose 

 using should be sufiicient to maintain a 

 temperature of from 60 to 65 degrees 

 during severe weather, with eight to ten 

 pounds of steam pressure. You do not 

 state your plan for returning the water 

 to the boiler. This is a problem to be 

 carefully considered if the boiler is set 

 on the level of the greenhouse floor. It 

 means a lift of some kind. ' L. C. C. 



Kindly discontinue my advertisement 

 of alyssum. It did the work. I sold out 

 clean and could have sold more. — 

 Shearer the Florist, Winchester, Ky. 



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