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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



November 5, 1908. 



(ireenhoflse Heating. 



James McCeea & Co., Chicago, man- 

 ufacturers of the Climax steam joint 

 clamp and other pipe repairs, have 

 brought suit for infringement against 

 the Simplex Engineering Co., of Phila- 

 delphia, who have recently placed a pipe 

 joint clamp on the market. 



CAPACITY OF BOILER. 



How many square feet of glass can be 

 heated by a steel tubular boiler which 

 is thirty-six inches in diameter and eleven 

 feet long, and contains sixty-two 2^4- 

 inch tubes, ten feet long? My house is 

 20x165 and eleven feet to the ridge, with 

 glass ends and eighteen inches of glass in 

 the sides. Will this boiler heat it, and 

 how much more? I am located in south- 

 eastern Massachusetts. ' A. M. 



You do not state whether you intend 

 using the boiler for hot water or for 

 steam. In either case, however, the 

 boiler, properly set and with good fuel, 

 should be able to heat this house and 

 another of the same size. A house as 

 long as this can be more easily heated 

 by steam than by hot water, unless the 

 boiler is placed in the middle of the house 

 ^nd the risers run both ways. With the 

 boiler at one end, steam will give best 

 service, but will require more attention 

 from the fireman than hot water. 



L. C. C. 



STOVE HEAT IN GREENHOUSES. 



Please let me reply to A. K. B., who, 

 on page 68 of the Review of October 

 22, inquires in regard to heating a small 

 greenhouse with a stove. I have three 

 small houses, all separate, and heat each 

 one by a stove, and I have a neighbor 

 who has a similar plant and who heats 

 it that way also. We both grow vege- 

 table plants, with some lettuce early in 

 the spring to fill in, and find no diffi- 

 culty in maintaining a proper tempera- 

 ture. I have one house, 12x24, in which 

 I kept a varied collection of plants all 

 last winter, including geraniums, salvias, 

 cinerarias, etc., and after January 1 I 

 sowed seeds of double petunias and other 

 bedding plants and had splendid suc- 

 cess. 



When T tell you that I have done this 

 same thing during a period of more than 

 thirty years, you may suppose that I am 

 qualified to state that it is not such a 

 task as one might suppose. 



I can usually pick up a second-hand, 

 base-burning, reservoir stove at the stove 

 stores for about $6 or $8, which I make 

 do me for two or three years, sometimes 

 longer, and then throw it away as junk. 

 I take off the feet and set the stove on 

 the floor about five feet from the end 

 of the house. I run a horizontal pipe 

 back to within three or four feet of the 

 other end of the house and then elbow 

 up to my chimney, which is of galva- 

 nized iron, about twelve feet high. I re- 

 move one glass in the roof and put an 

 iron plate in its place, with the stove 

 pipe hole in it, and find that a suitable 

 arrangement. Of course I make this 

 chimney permanent by supporting it 

 from the floor. The pipe and chimney 

 are six inches in diameter. The hori- 

 zontal part requires, in this house, five 

 ordinary lengths of 6-inch stove pipe. 

 I put a bench over this pipe, which is in 

 the_ middle of the house, and see that 

 'tfie ^ipe has an upward slope to the 



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chimney. This stove will burn about two 

 ordinary hods of coal every twenty-four 

 hours, in ordinary winter weather. 



I find that small ventilators in each 

 end of the house, close to the peak, are 

 far better than the usual arrangement 

 of a much larger sash on one side. I 

 can leave them longer than I dare leave 

 the one large sash. 



Right around the stove the ground 

 soon gets dry, but that is easily wet. 

 And for a few feet on either side I 

 notice that the side benches dry quickly, 

 but one soon learns how to manage that. 

 In one corner, by the stove, I have a 

 barrel of water, which carries the tem- 

 perature of the house and is a conve- 

 nient arrangement, especially in winter 

 weather. 



The mercury here in Pennsylvania 

 gets down pretty low during a few of 

 the winter days and the long nights. 

 To meet these emergencies I have a sys- 

 tem of cloth covers which I put on the 

 house, and when they are on I can go 

 to bed with no care of the house on my 

 mind. As to these covers, I make a light 

 frame of sound pine wood, nearly as 

 long as the sashbars and each one three 

 feet wide, and stretch heavy cotton duck 

 on them. With these, when the cold 

 snaps are around, I cover the en- 

 tire house. Sixteen of these cloth frames, 

 as I call them, will cover a 24-foot 

 house. When they are put on, the tem- 

 perature in the house runs up in a few- 

 minutes far past the danger point, and 

 they are a great success. For more 

 than twenty years I have used similar 



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frames in my business during the spring, 

 over the glass on my outdoor beds. 

 They are a wonder in keeping out frosts 

 and they will last for decades if they are 

 cared for properly when out of service. 



The central bench in my house, over 

 the horizontal stove pipe, is an ideal 

 place for striking cuttings and starting 

 tomato seed, and I have great success 

 in sprouting canna and musa and other 

 tropical seeds. 



Let A. K. B. build his house, and if 



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