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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



January 7, 1009. 



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(ireeohoose Heating. 



HOUSE FOR BEDDING STOCK. 



We are just completing a greenhouse, 

 10x100 feet, and wish to heat it with hot 

 water. The house has brick walls four 

 feet high and measures seven feet to the 

 ridge. What size of flow pipe under the 

 ridge, and how many feet of 4-inch pipe 

 under the benches, will be required to 

 heat this house for geraniums, in Mich- 

 igan climate? Should the pipes that con- 

 nect the flow to the returns be the same 

 size as the flow? B. J. 



If you wish to use 4-inch pipe, which I 

 should not do unless I had the pipe on 

 hand, the house in question should be 

 provided with five lines of pipe, using 

 one flow and four returns, or, if you 

 prefer, two flows and three returns. If 

 you use one flow, it can be used to feed 

 a manifold containing three returns on 

 one side of the house and one on the 

 same side as the flow. If two flows are 

 used, they may serve one side and one 

 may be divided to feed two returns on 

 the opposite side, while the other may be 

 carried entirely around the house. Neither 

 of these schemes is as good, in my judg- 

 ment, as to use 2-inch and 3-inch mal- 

 leable pipe, placing a 3-inch riser under 

 the ridge and four 2-inch returns under 

 each side bench ^ fed from the one riser. 

 The riser would be carried from the 

 boiler to the far end of the house and 

 there divided by 2i^-inch or 3-inch pipe 

 to feed a manifold on each side contain- 

 ing four 2-inch returns. Then you wouU 

 connect an expansion tank by means of 

 a %-inch or 1-inch pipe to the main re- 

 turn close to the boiler, and carry it 

 twelve or fifteen feet above the highest 

 point in the system. F. R. 



CARNATIONS WITH ASPARAGUS. 



I am planning to buUd a greenhouse 

 in the spring, 20x100, and I wish to use 

 part of the middle bench for smilax and 

 Asparagus plumosus nanus. Now, which 

 end of the bench would you advise me to 

 use for this? I would like to have it on 

 the ground, but do not know how to ar- 

 range the pipes so I could have part 

 of the bench raised and the rest on the 

 ground. The house will run north and 



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south and I want to use the side benches 

 for carnations. How should I arrange 

 the benches and what size of pipes should 

 I use? How many and what kind of 

 pipes are the best, and what size of pipe 

 should the flow be, for hot water? Do 

 you think, if the sides of the house are 

 five and a half feet to the eaves, that 

 there should be glass on the sides? Where 

 should the pipes be put? On the walls 

 of the house and beside the walks? How 

 high should they be placed? Is it neces- 

 sary to have an expansion tank? I am 

 located in Oregon. M. C. J. 



If you wish to make carnations a main 

 crop, I believe as good a plan as can 

 be followed is to place all benches on 

 the ground. Use only about four inches 

 of drainage and five or six inches of 

 soil for the asparagus, and about a foot 

 of drainage and six inches of soil for 

 the carnations. This will allow the use 

 of plank or concrete sides for beds. 

 The piping can be distributed on the side 

 walls and on the purlin supports. For 

 such a house a 3-inch riser under the 

 ridge and twelve 2-inch returns, six on 

 each side wall, or four on each side wall 

 and two on each of two lines of purlin 

 supports four or five feet from the 

 ground, should give satisfaction. . Place 

 the expansion tank twelve or fifteen feet 

 above the high point in the system and 

 connect with the main return near the 

 boUer. L. C. C. 



I LiKB the Review very much. It 

 seems to hit the nail on the head every 

 time. — S. D. GRirriTH, New Woodstock, 



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ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



The business following the big Christ- 

 mas rush was fairly good among the 

 retailers and the New Year turned out 

 to be a pretty good day. Since then 

 there has been considerable activity 

 among the west end florists, with a good 

 deal of social work, and we hear of a 

 number of good sized weddings, recep- 

 tions and dinner parties booked for thiis 

 month. A number of downtown florists 

 also report quite a good demand for 

 New Year's in cut flowers, but, of course, 

 nothing like a week ago, when we all had 

 our hands full of all kinds of orders. 



Prices on stock at the wholesale houses 

 have fallen off greatly since the holidays 

 and the supply is quite large, with good 

 demand, but not enough to clean up. 

 The shipping trade has kept up pretty 

 well. Koses are becoming more abun- 

 dant in all grades and varieties. Carna- 

 tions are of the best quality and plenty/' 

 of them. White and light pink are iu 

 good demand. Violets, too, have suf-l 

 fered in price since the holidays. Cali-V 

 fornias are in large supply and of extra 



