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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



jANUAiir 13, 1910. 



BUT THE 



Taylor Automatic 

 RETURN TRAP 



AND SAVE MONEY 



Write for oar Ghiarantee and 

 Best Prices 



TAYLOR STEAM TRAP CO. 



BATTLE CREEK. MICH., U. S. A. 



cubic feet in the room. Also carry two 

 2% -inch flow pipes through the rose 

 house, along the side walls to the farther 

 end of the carnation house, and also two 

 flow pipes of the same size to the farther 

 end of the rose house, to supply the coils 

 there. In each of these houses place a 

 coil of six 2-inch pipes on each wall. The 

 return pipes should be of the same num- 

 ber and size as the flows. ' 



Without knowing the size of the office, 

 it is not possible to give a close estimate 

 of the size of boiler that will be re- 

 quired, but with 400 feet of radiation 

 in the office, and the amount suggested 

 for the rose and carnation rooms, it wUl 

 be advisable to have a boiler rated for 

 2,000 square feet of radiation. 



THE FUEL FAMINE. 



The fuel famine in the middle west this 

 season has been something entirely with- 

 out precedent, and it has kept a great 

 many growers on the anxious seat for 

 oyer a month. One result of the famine 

 will be that next summer a whole lot of 

 growers will take in a great deal more 

 fuel than they ever did before. A large 

 part of the trouble has come through the 

 inability of the railroads to move freight. 

 It is true that the stocks of fuel were not 

 large when the cold weather descended so 

 suddenly early in December, but it has 

 been more the troubles on the rail than 

 in the mine that have made coal scarce. 

 The man in charge of the operation of a 

 railroad does not have the softest of 

 snaps when zero lasts for weeks at a 

 time. A locomotive is usually looked 

 upon as an irresistible power, but many 

 an engine has been frozen up these last 

 few weeks. The railroads have been 

 making special effort to move perishable 

 freight and coal. The yards and sidings 

 all through the Mississippi valley are 

 filled with loaded cars of miscellaneous 

 merchandise. 



Just as an instance of how slowly fuel 

 has come forward, last summer the Iowa 

 Seed Co., Des Moines, built a big rein- 

 forced concrete shed for the storage of 

 some 500 tons of coal. It was late in 

 the autumn before the shed was finished, 

 and they never yet have succeeded in 

 getting enough coal at one time to com- 

 pletely cover the floor, to say nothing of 

 filling the shed. J. S. Wilson, in the 

 same town, says that he has gone to bed 

 many a night with so little fuel on hand 

 that if he did not get more next day his 

 fires would go out. 



THE FIIEEZE-CUT THAT 

 BANKflUPTS THE FLORIST 



will be avoided by those who have oar 



STANDARD 



THERMOSTAT 



STY E 1 



Diameter, 6 in. Price, $5.00 each 



It rinffs a bell by the sleeper's bed 

 whenever the taouBeB get too hot or too 

 cold. Saven Bleep, worry and fuel. 



Menasha. Wis , Jan. 9, 1909. 

 The Pabkeb Mfo, Co., 



BoBtOD Mass. 

 GentxiBHEn: Thermostat continues 

 to work to eutfre satisfaction and has 

 earned its cost the first mouth by sav- 

 ing $5.00 worth I f fUel. 



Yours very truly, 



Jos. B. Fboehlich. 



Standard Thermometer Co. 



(Bnooesaors to Parker Mfc* Co.) 

 66 Shirley St., BOSTON, MASS. 



Mention The Keview when you write. 



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la the only perfect 



Hot Water BoOer 



made In 15 slzea, beatlns from 

 tbe amallest arreenbouse up to 

 SO.OM square feet of class to 

 60 decrees, at 15 degrees be« 

 lo'«7 zero. 



PRICKS AND CATALOGUK 

 on application. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co* 



444 ERnC ST., CHICAGO 



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Made by 



ILLINOIS MALLEABLE IRON 00, 



1801-1825 Diversey Boulevard 



CHICAGO 



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 J good results genersMy 



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Such conditions are not conducive to 

 peace of mind; they tend rather toward 

 gray hairs. 



Makietta, O. — An accident to J. W. 

 Smith's boiler, on the night of Decem- 

 ber 14, caused the ruin of his entire 

 stock of plants and flowers for the holi- 

 days. This involves a loss of his whole 

 year's work, besides the shrinkage in the 

 business which he has built up during 

 the last two years. His finances are thus 

 so severely strained that he will have 

 great difficulty in restocking his place as 

 I promptly as is desirable. 



Steel 



Return 

 Tubular 



Boilers 



The most economical type of boiler for 

 Greenhouse beatingr. Hishly recommended 

 by well-known florists. 



JOHNSTON HEATING CO. 



138 E. 31st St., NEW YORK 



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Eaton, O.— S. J. Galloway sends this 

 report, under date of December 29: 

 "Ten degrees below zero. Pretty hard 

 on both the fireman and the coal pile.' 



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