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January 6, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



7J 



The Standard 

 of Excellence 



'POCAHONTAS" 

 ^SMOKELESS, 



A Symbol of 

 Quality 



Our regristered Trade-Mark coveriDgr TBTE CEI^EBBATED C. C. B. POCAHONTAS SMOKELESS COAI. 



corresponas to the Sterling Stamp on silver, as the United States Geological Survey has made it The Standard for 

 SradlnK all Steam Fuel. 



C. C. B. POCAHONTAS SMOKELESS 



Is the only American Coal that has been officially indorsed by the Governments of Great Britain, Germany 

 and Austria and is the favorite fuel with the United States Navy, which has ured it almost exclusively 

 for many years. Uneqnaled for the Generation of Steam and Domestic Purposes. 



CASTNER, CURRAN ft BULLITT, Sole Agents 



POCAHONTAS 



THASa MARK REalSTIIlIO 



Branch Offices 



1 Broadway, New York City. N. T. 

 Citizen's Bank Buildine, Norfolk, Va. 

 Old Colony Building. Chicago. 111. 

 60 Congress Street, Boston, Mass. 



C. C. B. Pocahontas Smokeless Coal Branch Offices 



Main Office: Bullitt BIdg. Neave Building, Cincinnati. Ohio. 



Ciiito 1K7 Strickland Building. Roanoke, Va. 



„ auiie «£ European Agt8.-Hull.Blyth& Company, 



Phrladelphia, Pennsylvania 4 Fenchurch Ave., London, £. C, £ng. 



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SMITH, UNEAWEAVER & CO. 



COAL 



AathrMlto, BltamlBoat, Coke tad Gas Coal 



,ru7t*lf«?.Sfn«. Philadelphia 



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fireenhoDse Heating. 



In the middle west the month of De- 

 cember was a tough one for the man who 

 does his own night firing. It was the 

 coldest December in many years, and 

 made great inroads on the coal bin, be- 

 sides requiring constant vigilance. 



Pursuing the custom established three 

 years ago, the American Blower Co., De- 

 troit, this Christmas presented each em- 

 ployee with a sum .in crisp new dollar 

 bills, equal to the years of their continued 

 service with the company. Along with 

 the money was given an illustrated book- 

 let, containing a short historical sketch of 

 the institution of which the employees 

 form such an important part, and all in- 

 closed in an envelope decorated in holiday 

 colors. 



A NOVEL HEATING PLANT. 



I have recently put into operation a 

 cheap plan for increasing the eflBciency 

 of my heating plant and it may be that 

 the idea can be used to advantage by 

 other greenhouse owners. 



My house is 36x60, eight feet to the 

 ridge and three feet at the sides, all 

 banked with soil. I have a five horsa- 

 power, upright boiler, with two 4-ineh 

 openings. Last year this boiler would 

 not heat my house above 45 degrees dur- 

 ing zero weather. I had two flows and 

 three returns under my beds and across 

 each end, which makes about 500 feet of 

 hot water radiation. It is the same this 

 year, but last fall I turned the boiler 

 down under the beds and built a 3x2x4 

 firebrick furnace in front of it. I am 

 now running the smokestack under the 

 beds to the opposite end of the house. 

 It is sixteen inches in diameter and is 

 joined to a chimney of 18-inch sewer- 

 pipe tile, so you see the heat travels 

 sixty feet before leaving the house. 



I am growing miscellaneous plants and, 

 with this slight change in arrangement, 

 have had no trouble in maintaining a 

 temperature of 60 degrees, both day and 



What'sThis? 



It*s the New 



Perfection 



Flue Cleaner 



and we want to send it to you for 

 30 days' FREE trial. 



The Perfection will clean welded 

 fines as well as old ones; re- 

 move scale from tubes without 

 cutting metal ; clean hot or cold 

 fines without changing temper; 

 ran be operated by flexible 

 handle. 



The knives are always sharp. 

 Heads are drop steel forgings. 

 Hundreds now In use by florists. 



Scully Steel & Iron Co. 



Halsted and Fulton Sts., Chicago, III. 



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night, although the outside temperature 

 has fallen as low as 8 degrees below 

 zero. Samuel Kimbey. 



TO HEAT GREENHOUSES. 



Did you ever stop to think what it 

 takes to heat a really big greenhouse 

 plaht? It isn't the trifling incident the 

 uninformed might suppose. For instance, 

 one day last month August Poehlmann, 

 secretary of the Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 Morton Grove, 111., made a single pur- 

 chase of 114 carloads of coal. That 

 would be over 5,000 tons, but it would 

 last only a part of the season. Putting 

 it another way, that one order, if ship- 

 ment were made all at once, would make 

 more than two solid trainloads — if only 



Leaks Ruin Stock 



Don't Have Them 

 Our Emergency Pipe damps 



are made of malleable iron and are 

 ■ruaranteed to make QUICK, SURE RE- 

 PAIRS of all splits or rust boles on pipe. 





Send for catalogue. 

 Pipe Repairs and Steam Specialties 



JAMES McCREA & CO. 



Manufacturers 

 558-560 Washington Blvd. CaiGAGO 



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We will send you by ezpreKS. all charts 

 prepaid, a one pound can of 



Tripp's Pipe Joint Gompounil 



Ground in Boiled Linseed Oil. ready to 

 use, and a one pound package of 



Tripp's Iron Repair Cement 



The Alan H. Tripp Co. 



eeo S. Clark Street, CHICAGK> 



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two trains, they would have to be double- 

 headers, for fifty cars is about all a big 

 mogul locomotive is good for, especially 

 in cold weather. But Mr. Poehlmann or- 

 dered deliveries spread over six weeks, at 

 the rate of about three cars a day. He 

 intends to keep his bunkers full. 



Speaking of fuel, and what' it costs to 



