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72 The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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• January 6, 1910. 



heat a greenhouse, a few weeks ago 

 Peter Reinberg gave a few figures as to 

 the quantity and cost of his fuel in the 

 season of 1907-8. He burned, he said,' 

 about 250 cars of Pocahontas coal, mined 

 in West Virginia. The cars averaged 

 about forty-five tons of coal each, or a 

 total of over 11,000 tons, and the cost 

 was something over $3 per ton. It was 

 interesting that the cost of the coal at 

 the mine Avas less than one-third its value 

 when on Mr. Reinberg 's siding — in other 

 words, the cost of freight and switching 

 was nearly two and one-third times the 

 value of the coal at the mouth of the 

 mine. Mr. Reinberg 's fuel last season 

 cost considerably over $35,000. 



C. L. Washburn says that Bassett & 

 Washburn usually burn about 12,000 

 tons of coal a season at their plant at 

 Hinsdale, Il^_with the prospect of ex- 

 ceedi«g-^hdt quantity if the winter con- 

 tinues asNrold as it has started. 



IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS. 



I intend to build a greenhouse 34x120 

 feet, even-span, five and one-half feet to 

 the eaves and ten feet to the ridge, with 

 rafters nineteen feet eight inches long. 

 There will be glass in the ends down to 

 the plate, and two feet of glass below 

 the plate on the south side. The house 

 will face five degrees east of south. The 

 beds will be raised about twenty inches. 

 Hot water heat will be used. How many 

 21/^ -inch overhead flows, and how many 

 2-inch returns on the sides, will be re- 

 quired to maintain a temperature of 60 

 degrees when the outside temperature is 

 10 degrees below zero? What size of 

 boiler and grate will be needed? Is it 

 necessary to have the top of the boiler 

 below the lowest return? A. L, B. 



For a house 34x120 feet, built as de- 

 scribed, the use of five 2^-inch flows and 

 seventeen 2-inch returns should give the 

 temperature desired. It is not necessary 

 to have the returns above the top of the 

 boiler, but if below that point for much 

 of their length it will be advisable to use 

 2^-inch pipes throughout, and arrange 

 them so that each pipe will give a com- 

 plete and continuous circulation. Twenty 

 pipes — that is, ten flows and ten returns 

 — will be required. When one flow sup- 

 plies several returns, part of which are 

 below the top of the boiler, only a part 

 of them will circulate properly. 



The boiler should be one that is rated 

 at 2,000 to 2,200 square feet of radiation. 

 The grate may vary in diameter from 30 

 to 32 inches, according to the character 

 and extent of the fire surface. 



SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 



The Florists' Qub. 



The next meeting of the Springfield 

 Florists' Club will be held on Monday 

 evening, January 10, at which time the 

 members will be the guests of the High- 

 land Floral Co., at its range of rose 

 houses on South Limestone street. 



Invitations enclosing return acceptance 

 cards have been sent out to all male 

 florists in the city, and every man con- 

 nected in any way with the florists ' trade, 

 whether a member of the club or not, is 

 expected to attend. The subject of the 

 evening will be, "Anything and Every- 

 thing That Should Interest the Local 

 Florist. ' ' 



The feature of the evening will be a 

 "kraut supper," and it is safe to pre- 

 dict that the menu will show traces of 

 the fine German hands of such typical 



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