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The Florists' Review 



OCTOBDH 6, 1921 



UP-TO-DATE GREENHOUSES 



must be lasting, convenient and eflflcient. Tbey must be constructed 

 in accordance with the principles which have been approved by knowl- 

 edge and experience. We have been in the greenhouse manufacturing 

 business foi many years and our experience is at your disposal. 



Our patent LEAK-PROOF locked gutter has proven a success. If 

 you are not using the same as yet, do so on your next houses and we 

 know we can add your name to our list of satisfied customers. 



ICKES-BRAUN MILL CO. 



2330 Wabansia Avenue, New West.™ ^a Nortii Ayei. CHICAGO, 



GREENHOUSE MATERIAL, GREENHOUSE HARDWARE, PERMANITE, PAINT, ETC. 



Pat. Oet. 80. 1919 



a range of five houses, 26x220 feet, 

 which were heated to 45 and 50 degrees, 

 in a state where the climate is more 

 severe than in southern Pennsylvania, 

 by a boiler of the size mentioned. 



A simple method of computing the 

 horsepower of a tubular boiler with 

 3-inch tubes, twelve feet long, is to 

 reckon the horsepower equal to the num- 

 ber of tubes. For lengths greater or 

 less than twelve feet, or for tubes with 

 a diameter greater or less than three 

 inches, increase or diminish the capacity 

 accordingly. 



HEATING A NEW HOUSE. 



I should like some information as to 

 how I can best heat my greenhouse with 

 hot water. The house is 15x108, and I 

 am building another to join on the west 

 side of the present house. The new 

 house will be 20x108. It will be eleven 

 and one-half feet to the ridge and will 

 run north and south. There will be a 

 basement seven feet deep. I have a No. 

 3 Kroeschell boiler in the basement. 

 The top of the boiler is two feet below 

 the floor of the greenhouses. 



There will be a 30-inch concrete wall 

 and three feet of glass in the side wall. 

 The south end is thirty inches concrete, 

 with the balance of glass. The boiler 

 has two openings for 4-inch flows and 

 the same number for returns. I have 

 3,000 feet of 2-in(-h pipe, of which I 

 should like to use as much as possible. 

 There will be a bench on each side of 

 the house and two ground beds in the 

 center. The toniperatuie must be at 55 

 or 60 degrees. C. R. — O. 



While it would be possible to use 

 four of the 2-inch pipes as flows, with 

 ten 2-inch returns, it would be prefer- 

 able to use three 2V2-inch flow pipes 

 and ten returns. This would require a 

 coil of four returns in the middle walk. 

 Another way would be to use one 3-inch 

 flow pipe on each of the side wall plates 

 and ten 2-inch returns, placing five of 

 the returns on each side wall. 



HOT WATER VERSUS STEAM. 



What are the heating requirements 

 and what style of hot water boiler 

 would be best adapted for use in a 

 greenhouse 16x65 feet, having a north 

 wall five feet high, containing no glass, 

 and a south wall four feet six inches 

 high, containing two feet six inches of 

 glass and two feet of 1-inch board, and 

 having ends of glass except a 2%-foot 

 wall of 1-inch board at the bottom? The 



WHY TAKE CHANCES? 



I'i ."tiAf^i: th'ii:' 





$15 



EACH 





7n-:t 



Why do you take chances of losing hun- 

 dreds, maybe thousauds of dollars in crops? 

 That is just what you are doling if 

 you have no Standard Thermostat. 

 A freeze-out may completely ruin 

 your plants over niKht. or reduce 

 their valueby hundreds of dollars. 



The Standard Thermostat will ring a 

 bell wheDe^er your greeLhouse tern- 

 perature riscc or falls to the danver 

 poini. Plat e tie bell at your beuside 

 or anywhere you please. 



This is a word to the wise— a buy 

 word to t^e wise grower. Sudden 

 tem eratureup'isnddownsruinthou- 

 FBnds of olants every year. Pro'eot 

 yours! Install a Standard Th-rmo tat 

 now. It costs only $18.0 O. Write todiiy. 



(6. H. 3 same as G. H. 4, only not in locked 

 case, $10.00.) 



Standard Thermometer Co. 

 68 Shirley Street BOSTON, MASS. 



GREENHOUSES 



WRITE FOR CATALOCUE OR ESTIMATE 

 State Type of Construction You Want 



King Construction Co., North Tonawanda, N. Y. 



Hanifon Suilduc, PhiUaelpbU, P.. 7 N. Inrmc A»e.. ScrutoQ. P«. 1 W. 47tli St, New York. N. T. 



ASTIGA 



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 UlEiTNOWL 



F.O.nEBCECIl 



P.O. Box 204 

 NEW YORK 



Mastica is elastic and tenacious, admits 

 of expansion and contraction. Putty be- 

 comes hard and brittle. Kroken glass irore 

 eacily removed without breaking of other 

 glass as occurs with bard putty. 



Lasts Longer than Potty. Easy to Apply 



boiler can be placed at either end, on 

 the north side of house, or in the mid- 

 dle of the house. I should prefer to use 

 secondhand material if it is possible 

 to obtain it. E. M. S. — 111. 



Although it costs considerably more 

 to install a hot water heating plant than 

 a steam plant, the former will require 

 less attention and the amount of fuel 

 used will not be so large by twcntyfive 



FULL 

 SIZE 

 N° 2 



Ireer's Peerlasr 

 Glazing Points 



For Greentaouses 



Drive easy and true, becau -e 

 both bevels are on liu* i^ame 

 Bide. Can't twist an<i brenk 

 the Klasi} in ••riving. Galvan- 

 ized a id wi'l not rust No 

 riwhti orl.fts. 

 The Pecrles-* Glazinv^ Poii 

 is patented Nooth'ii- 

 it. Order t rem yourde. 

 er or direct f.-om us. 

 Write for sampius 

 and price. 



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 riOlMUlphla. 



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