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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



November 19, 1908. 



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 CHICAGO 



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AUTOMATIC STOKERS. 



In recent years there has been a pro- 

 nounced improvement in the character 

 of the heating systems of the leading 

 greenhouse establishments. Quite a num- 

 ber now operate electric lighting plants 

 of their own and several have artificial 

 refrigerating plants, operated in connec- 

 tion with their boiler plants. 



Added to the need for economy in fuel, 

 a good many greenhouse owners have 

 found themselves confronted with the ques- 

 tion of the smoke nuisance, and much in- 

 terest has been taken in the various sys- 

 tems employed in power plants to meet 

 these needs. The F. R. Williams Co., Cleve- 

 land, has just put in its second Murphy 

 Automatic Smokeless Furnace. This is 

 only applicable to high pressure steam 

 boilers. The first one gave them such 

 good results that a second was installed. 

 In common with all mechanical stokers, 

 it feeds the coal without opening the 

 fire doors, thus adding to efiiciency and 

 economy. The fire also is cleaned and 

 the ash removed automatically. The feed 

 being in continuous operation, there is no 

 period of belching smoke, the chimney 

 being almost clear. 



The Pittsburg Eose & Carnation Co., 

 Bakerstown, Pa., also has put in two of 

 these stokers at a cost of $1,850. 



dNONNATL 



The Market 



Business here is still quite satisfac- 

 tory and we have every reason to be 

 hopeful that it will continue so. The 

 demand seems to be a steady one, and 

 while there are days when business is not 

 quite up to the mark, it usually happens 

 that the following day makes up for it, 

 and the general average is what counts, 

 after all. There have been quite a num- 

 ber of coming-out receptions and parties, 

 and these have used up a great quantity 

 of stock, and it is always the best stock, 

 too. The average price of all varieties 

 of flowers is gradually moving upward, 

 with every prospect that the prices ob- 

 tained at Thanksgiving will be good. 

 There has also been a great deal of funer- 

 al work, of which large sprays of mums 

 have formed a great part. 



We had the first snow of the season 

 November 13, but it was light. Good, 

 hard frosts occur every night. In fact, 

 so far as the weather is concerned, we 

 are in winter. The sky is clear most 

 of the time, though, and ijOiat makes 

 conditions pretty good in" the green- 

 houses. Stock is coming in fine shape, 

 and the quality is first-class, but the 

 bright weather has been forcing it along 

 pretty fast, and we are beginning to 

 wonder what will happen should a couple 

 of weeks of dark, cloudy weather be 

 handed out to us. 



Thanksgiving day is now upon us, and 

 we are ready to welcome it. The last 

 few years have developed this day into 



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 "Eclipse" piston type reducing valve to florists. We have two, purchased 

 of you last year. We would not have them out for double their cost, and 

 find them as sensitive as a watch. We will be in Chicago soon to take up 

 the vacuum system with you. Tours truly. 



W. H. QuLLXTT & Sons, Florists. . 



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 does its work without trouble and 

 annoyance, saving its cost by the 

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