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The Weekly Florists^ Re view^ 



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December 31, 1908. 



KENNETH ANDERSON MF6. GO. 



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Also agents for REVERO, 



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looking for. 



33, 35 and 37 East Atwater Street, 



DETROIT, MICH. 



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(ireenhoMse Heating. 



PIPES LEAKING. 



Can you tell us why our system of 

 piping leaks? We have hot water and 

 4-ineh boiler tubing for flow and return, 

 with cast-iron fittings and calked joints 

 calked with oakum and lead. After one 

 season's firing they leaked badly at the 

 joints, so we took them out and had them 

 calked over again and they remained per- 

 fectly tight until after we began to fire 

 heavily, and then, after the water would 

 cool during the day, they would leak 

 badly. But when the water is again 

 warmed up to the night temperature they 

 will stop until cooled off, when they leak 

 as badly as ever. It must be in the 

 expansion, some way, but we thought this 

 method was used a great deal in green- 

 house heating. Can you tell us where 

 the trouble is? We have noticed your 

 valuable advice to others. E. & B. 



With thoroughly packed joints, such 

 trouble as you have experienced should 

 not occur. If this trouble persists, I 

 would suggest packing the sleeve about 

 one-third full of oakum and then packing 

 the rest of the distance with a rust-joint 

 paste, such as the following: Sal am- 

 moniac, 2 oz. ; iron filings, 8 lbs., and 

 suflScient water to render it workable. 

 Or, iron filings, 4 lbs.; pipe clay, 2 lbs.; 

 powdered potsherds, 11 lbs., made into a 

 paste by using strong brine. L. C. C. 



YOKING BOILERS. 



We have two sectional boilers of nine 

 sections each, one of which is now run- 

 ning two ranges. The boilers are in 

 same cellar, and No. 1, now in operation, 

 has four flow pipes, two for each range, 

 and two return pipes. No. 2, about six 

 feet to one side of No. 1, has two flow 

 and one return connection. Please state 

 how the boilers should be connected so 

 that both, or cither of the ranges, can 

 be run by cither or both boilers. 



S. B. S. 



I hesitate to make any suggestions in 

 this case, as no idea of the present pip- 

 ing is suggested. It may be a, simple 

 matter to throw al! the flow pipes into 

 one main riser, but if independent risers 

 are carried from each boiler, opening to 

 different houses or sections of the plant, 

 a very different mode of procedure woulU 

 be necessary. A common riser near the 

 boilers is necessary in order to yoke the 

 boilers together. If independent flows 

 have been taken from each boiler open- 

 ing, it will be necessary to use a double 

 yoke to first unite the boilers and then 



Improved 

 Recording 



THERMOMETER 



Just the Thing for 

 Your Greenhouse 



Illinois State Florists' AsBOciatlon. 



Edwtrdsville, 111.. Oct. 28. 1908. 

 The recording thermometer Is work- 

 ing o. k. I would not part with it for 

 twice the cost. Send me $1.00 worth 

 of charts for the same. 



J. F. Ammann. 



No. 200. 



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Clifton and Shirley Sts., 



BOSTON, MASS. 



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supply each flow. The same idea will 

 have to be followed with the returns. 

 Gate valves will be required in both flows 

 and returns in order to use the boilers 

 alternately. L. C. C. 



TRI-QTffiS. 



The Market. 



Christmas trade in general in the 

 Tri-Cities was very encouraging, indicat- 

 ing no serious hard times in this vicinity. 

 The florists complain somewhat of the 

 holly and green business, claiming that 

 the street fakers, grocers and others, all 



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handling the goods, made it hard to dis- 

 pose of at good prices. Christmas trees 

 sold at from 10 cents up and many had 

 quite .a few left over. 



Davenport had a couple of large fu- 

 nerals for Monday and Tuesday, which 



