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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Decbmbeb 23, 1900. 



DETROIT. 



The Market 



Merry Christmas! Every indication at 

 present points to a Christmas business that 

 will outclass all previous years. Christmas 

 choppers are beginning to realize the ad- 

 vantage of doing their buying earlier, 

 and the flower store men of this city have 

 also felt that the public is buying earlier 

 this year. This is but Sunday, still a 

 visit to the retail stores will show you 

 many ferns, palms, jardinieres, etc., with 

 ' * sold ' ' tickets on them. 



There is little to say about the cut 

 flower stock. Flowers of every descrip- 

 tion have been none too plentiful for 

 some time. Last week there was a big 

 demand for valley, roses, violets, orchids, 

 etc., as there were several debutantes. 

 There was also considerable funeral work 

 and it is a tough proposition to make 

 up large designs with but few white flow- 

 ers, and these worth their weight in gold. 

 No doubt there will be plenty of flowers 

 after Christmas. 



There was much more truth than poetry 

 in the paper of Charles Fox of Phila- 

 delphia, published in the Review Decem- 

 ber 9. The writer got the opinion of sev- 

 •eral prominent store men of this city on 

 this article and each one thought it splen- 

 did and hoped the time was not far dis- 

 tant when the growers would wake up to 

 the fact that the outrageous prices asked 

 at Christmas were most detrimental to 

 our business. 



The high price of ground pine has 

 created a demand for laurel festooning, 

 the latter being more in evidence than 

 ■ever before. Many of the better stores 

 are also becoming tired of ground pine 

 garlands. 



Varioua Notes. 



A glance at some of the store windows 

 of the florists this week is all that is 

 necessary to tell one that it is Christmas 

 time. Poinsettias, natural and almost 

 natural, without which Christmas would 

 be almost impossible, are of course the 

 predominating feature in nearly every 

 -window. 



In one of Breitmeyer's windows is a 

 fine display of Dresden china. Sullivan 's 

 window is prettily trimmed with gar- 

 lands, bells, poinsettias, etc. W. B. 

 Brown is strong on brassware and is mak- 

 ing a good showing of this. 



An uncle of Herman Knope died in 

 Chicago last week and Herman went to 

 •Chicago, intending to attend the funeral, 

 but his own children being sick with 

 •flcarlet fever he stayed but one day. 



The Twentieth Century Club building 

 was twice beautifully decorated this week. 

 Monday the decorations were done by B. 

 Schroeter and Tuesday by Breitmeyer's. 



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 public in the northwest and prove that 

 there is no danger of a coal famine, the 

 St. Paul roads have begun to haul coal 

 from the Illinois fields to the Twin 

 ■Cities in train loads. Enough coal will 

 be poured into the northwest to prove 

 that the railroads are able to handle all 

 the fuel that is needed. For the purpose 

 of further relieving the public appre- 

 hension which has arisen on account of 

 the statements with respect to the coal 



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situation, railroad managers have had a 

 canvass made of the mines along their 

 lines. The result is the statement that 

 none of the Illinois mines is running full 

 time, on account of the slack demand for 

 coal. 



STEAM FOR THREE HOUSES. 



Enclosed you ■will find a plan of my 

 greenhouses, which will be built next 

 spring. I should like to know how to 

 heat these with steam, and also what 

 kind and size of boiler would be best. I 

 should like a low pressure system. The 

 boiler room will be five feet deep. The 

 greenhouse walls will be of concrete, four 

 and one-half feet high, with eighteen 

 inches of glass in the south wall. The 

 two large houses will have solid beds of 

 concrete construction, one foot high. The 

 houses will be used for chrysanthemums 

 and sweet peas, or lilies. I am located 

 in northern Illinois. J. E. F. 



As near as can be determined from the 

 plan, there are two houses about 24x117 

 feet and one house 12x117 feet. The 

 ridge is nearly twelve feet high in the 

 wider houses and nine feet high in the 

 narrow house. 



To heat these houses to 50 degrees a 

 boiler with a rating of about twenty-five 

 horse-power will be desirable, as, in addi- 

 tion to supplying 1,200 square feet of 

 radiating surface for the greenhouses, 

 there is a large oflBce to heat. In the 

 wider houses it will be well to run a 

 2-inch overhead main and then use eight 

 1^4 -inch returns. The returns can be 

 on the walls and along the side of the 



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beds. In the narrow house it will suffice 

 if one 2-inch flow and four 114-inch re- 

 turns are used. 



The boiler room is so shallow that it 

 will probably be advisable to put in a 

 steam trap. There are several excellent 

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HOUSE FOR GENERAL STOCK. 



I have a house which I wish to pipe for 

 hot water. It is 16x90 feet, four feet 

 Mgh at the sides and nine feet high at 

 the ridge, with no glass in sides or ends. 

 The flow pipe will have to run uphill 

 from the boiler to the farther end. "Where 

 shall I connect the expansion pipe? The 

 boiler pit is eight and one-half feet below 

 the floor of the house. 



I want to use 2-inch flows and 114-inch 

 returns, as I have a lot of those sizes of 

 pipe on hand. How much piping and 



