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The Florists^ Review 



▲oousT 6, 1914. 



SMITH, LINEAWCAVER & CO. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



SuBSCBiBEBS are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard 

 to any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Beview to make a choice of 

 apparatus for you. The greenhouse 

 heating equipment advertised in this 

 paper is, we believe, the best for the 

 trade to buy, and each article the best 

 in the special field of its adaptation. 



FBEIQHT ON FUEL UNOHANOED. 



A majority of all the greenhouses in 

 the United States are located in the 

 territory affected by the long overdue 

 freight rate decision published August 1 

 by the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

 This territory comprises that part of 

 the country east of the Mississippi and 

 north of the Ohio river, east to the At- 

 lantic ocean. It is less than one-fourth 

 the area of the United States, but in it 

 are more than three-fourths of the sub- 

 scribers to The Review. They will, of 

 course, be affected exactly as are the 

 rest of the people by the broad general 

 phases of the decision, but they will 

 escape any addition to the transporta- 

 tion cost of coal, the article which, next 

 to labor, forms the principal item of 

 expense in running a greenhouse. The 

 commission refuses permission to ad- 

 vance the rate on coal — anywhere. 

 While it is found that rates in 

 the territory between Buffalo, Pitts- 

 burgh and the Mississippi are lower than 

 anywhere else in the United States, and 

 permission is granted for an advance of 

 five per cent in class rates and on many 

 commodities, the rates on coal are among 

 those that are held to be already suffi- 

 ciently profitable. In no other territory 

 are any advances granted. How im- 

 portant to florists as a whole is the 

 action holding down the rates on coal 

 may be judged from the fact that there 

 are a dozen growers around Chicago 

 who each burn anywhere from 3,000 

 to 20,000 or more tons of West Virginia 

 coal on which the freight already is 

 $2.10 per ton and on which the railroads 

 had asked the right to advance it an- 

 other 10% cents per ton. 



ONE-INCH PIPE IS TOO SMALL. 



I should like to get a little advice in 

 regard to piping my two greenhouses, 

 which are each 14x50, four feet high 

 to the eaves and nine feet high to the 

 ridge. The houses adjoin, but have a 

 concrete wall between them. The two 

 outside walls and the ends are also 

 concrete. I wish to grow carnation 

 and tomato plants. Here, in the west- 

 ern part of New York state, the out- 



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Mootlon The Rerlew when yon write. 



side temperature sometimes drops as 

 low as 25 degrees below zero. The 

 boiler house is connected to the end 

 of the greenhouses. My dwelling house 

 protects the greenhouses from the se- 

 vere west winds. I shall use hot water 



heat. Would it be satisfactory to put 

 a 2-inch pipe, four inches long, in the 

 top of the boiler with a tee coupling, 

 so that I could run flowpipes into the 

 two houses side by side! Would this 

 pipe, four inches long, be largo enough 



