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Febbuary 4, 1909. 



or boiler, as is often done in basements 

 of buildings, railway cars, etc. 



1 cannot understand, from the inquiry, 

 if the tank spoken of is closed or open. 

 If it is closed and can be heated, as 

 stated by T. H., there should be no diffi- 

 culty in heating this violet frame, even 

 though it is lower than the tank or heater, 

 by carrying, say, a 2-inch pipe from the 

 top of the tank up to a point about two 

 or three feet farther above the tank 

 than the frame is below the tank; put- 

 ting on a return bend tapped for %-inch 

 pipe for a small expansion tank, running 

 down with the same size (2-inch) pipe 

 and connecting with the coil in the 

 frame, which in turn is connected with 

 the lx)ttom of the heater. If possible, 

 see to it that it is downhill from the re- 

 turn bend at the top of the riser to the 

 return end of the coil, and then up to 

 the bottom of the heater. The circula- 

 tion generated in the heater and riser, 

 and in the corresponding down pipe, will 

 cause the water in the coil to circulate, 

 and the higher this riser is carried above 

 the heater the more rapid the circulation 

 in the coil will be. The small expansion 

 tank, connected at the top of the riser 

 pipe, will free the system from any air 

 or steam that may be present. 



E. Q. MiLFORD. 



•TWO VIRGINIA ROSE HOUSES. 



I expect to build two connected rose 

 houses, each 42x280 feet, nine feet to 

 the gutter and eighteen feet to the ridge, 

 with a cross section walk in the center 

 of each house. Kindly let me know what 

 will be the best way to pipe them for 

 steam heat. I never carry over ten 

 l)ounds of steam. What size and how 

 many pipes should be used for flows, and 

 also for returns? I shall use raised 

 benches. The outside temperature here 

 seldom gets below zero ; possibly once or 

 twice in winter it will run about 5 or 6 

 degrees below. D. G. G. 



Each of the houses 42k280 should have 

 not less than twenty-two lines of 1^-inch 

 pipe, and twenty-four lines would be a 

 little better. These can be fed by a 

 single 4-inch main, carried under the 

 ridge, or by two 3-inch flows, one under 

 each purlin about halfway between eaves 

 and ridge. L. C. C. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



Just as soon as the last of the visitors 

 had left Indianapolis the weather took 

 a sudden change and by noon, January 

 29, was a young blizzard, that kept in- 

 creasing till, on Saturday, it was full 

 grown, the temperature at 10 degrees, 

 with a high wind, that gave the firemen 

 a hard time. The strong wind lifted a 

 corner of A. Wiegand & Sons' conserva- 

 tory and loosened a few panes of glass. 

 With quick work it was soon secured and 

 further damage averted. 



Business during the week has been 

 good, all seeming to be busy. 



The city florists' monthlv meeting will 

 be iieid February 10. at Waihalla hall. 



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temperature went down to about 10 

 degrees above and stayed there. As may 

 be supposed, the growers caught it pretty 

 strong. It was hard to keep the houses 

 from freezing up with such a wind blow- 

 ing, and several report small damage 

 from frost, but, taken all together, it 

 did not amount to mueh. 



The cold snap has had a tendency to 

 shorten the supply of stock and, as a 



are a little better 

 There is a slightly 

 with not so much 

 market was kept 

 business was much 



consequence, prices 

 than last reported, 

 better demand and, 

 stock coming, the 

 cleared out well and 

 more satisfactory. 



The demand for carnations for Mc- 

 Kinley day scarcely created a ripple in 

 the market. Few were seen being worn 

 and the day is doubtless one of the past. 



