OCTOBEB 1, 1908. 



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The Weekly Florists' Review. 





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WILKS 



Hot Water Boilers 



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\, Arc Best for 



•Small Greenhouses, etc 



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NO NIGHT FIREMAN REQUIRED 



With OtLv 



Self-feeding Hot Water Boilers 



Keep an even and continuous lire for ten hours and lon^r 



without any attention 



VERY ECONOMICAL IN FIJEL 



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all the water in a main return, gives 

 every pipe hot water. Your house on 

 this plan might have one 2% -inch flow 

 from the boiler to the south end and 

 sixteen 1%-inch returns on the side walls 

 or under the benches. The expansion 

 tank should be placed twelve to thirteen 

 feet above the highest point in the sys- 

 tem and connected with the main return 

 near the boiler by a %-inch pipe. Do 

 not connect the expansion tank to the 

 main flow or force the hot water through 

 a tank, as at present. L. C. C, 



A WYOMING VEGETABLE HOUSE. 



My hothouse is 16x100 in the clear, 

 built on a south hillside and intended 

 for vegetables, such as lettuce and rad- 

 ishes. , I have about 400 feet of 2-inch 

 pipe for return coils and also 400 feet 

 of 1-inch pipe. May I not use it? 

 Would you put the small pipe in front 

 or behind? There is no exposure except 

 the glass and that all slopes one way. 



I do not advise the use of 1-inch pipe 

 for hot water heating in maximum length 

 runs, which you have. I fear you will 

 not get good service if you use it. My 

 plan would be, if possible, to exchange 

 the 1-inch pipe for 2-inch pipe. You 

 should have at least seven lines of 2-inch 

 pipe in this house. Both lots you now 

 have are not sufficient to pipe the house 

 by about sixty square feet of radiation. 

 Four hundred lineal feet of 1-inch pipe 

 make only 135 square feet of heating 

 surface, so it is not very economical even 

 in short runs. L. C. C. 



A NEW JERSEY LEAN-TO. 



I am erecting a lean-to house, 7x54. 

 It is seven feet high at the back and 

 four feet six at the front. It faces east 

 and runs north and south. It is pro- 

 tected from northerly winds by my dwell- 

 ing house, and has twelve inches of glass 

 at the front and twenty at the back. 

 Would you be good enough to tell me 



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Protection Is Better Than Insurance 



The follo^rlnc Item appeared in all the larse dally ne^rapapers of tlie 

 United States, Sept. 6, 1907 : 



"Pleasant Hill, Mo., September 26. 1907 —A boiler exploded early 

 today in the const rvatoriee of Geo. M. KelloKg, florist, three miles from 

 here, partially destroyint; the plant and causinK damage estimated at 

 •75.000.00. Over half of the plant was saved. The conservatoriee are 

 among the largest in the west." 



It wan a steel boiler that exploded and wrought this great loss. 



^pitol Boilers are made of cast iron and cannot explode. 



With a steel boiler in the greenhou'e, or anywhere else, there is always the 

 ever-present contingency of ah explosion With the Capitol Boiler there is the 

 assurance of safety from explosion. Besides the divided sections, the low fuel cost 

 and ease of operation make the Capitol Boiler demand the florists' consideration. 



Let us send you the testimony of successful florists who are usins Capitol 

 Boilers. Descriptive literature and all Information promptly forwarded. 



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