Au«6ST 6, 1914. 



The Rorists' Review 



96 



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rpLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY j 



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to supply the two mains? How should 

 the houses be piped, for best results? 

 Can I use 1-inch and l^^-inch pipe? 

 I have plenty of these on hand. 



G. W. B. 



To heat the houses described, at 

 least 250 square feet of radiation will 

 be required for each house with an 

 open-tank system and 200 square feet 

 if a mercury circulator is used. I 

 would prefer to use one 2i^-inch flow 

 pipe for each of the houses, and it 

 would be well to connect each of them 

 directly with the boiler. Even when 

 to be used under pressure and with 

 small sized pipes for the coils, it would 

 be preferable not to use a single 2-inch 

 connection for the two houses, al- 

 though it would answer if a 2-inch 

 flow were used for each. If 2%-inch 

 flows are used, they might be con- 

 nected singly with the boiler by means 

 of short 2-inch nipples. 



It will answer well to use 1^-inch 

 pipes for the returns, but I would pre- 

 fer not to use the 1-inch pipe. For 

 each of the houses put in a 2 V^ -inch 

 overhead flow and six 1%-inch returns 

 with a mercury circulator, or eight or 

 nine returns with an open-tank system. 



THE COAL MABEET. 



The latest reports on the coal trade 

 may be summarized in the scarcely en- 

 thusiastic statement that the slight im- 

 provement announced last week is still 

 discernible, with an advance in the 

 prices of certain grades of fuel, but 

 that buying still is light and there are 

 large reserve stocks of coal that have 

 not yet been touched. Naturally, there 

 has been much discussion during the last 

 week as to what effect the European 

 war may be expected to have on the 

 *;oal trade in America, if all the princi- 

 pal countries of Europe become involved 

 in the terrific struggle. It seems to be 

 generally agreed that a war of such 

 magnitude would necessarily increase 

 the demand for fuel in this country to 

 a greater or less degree, but the various 

 opinions seem to be governed as much 

 by imagination as by available facts 

 and figures. However, there are vague, 

 unverified reports to the effect that con- 

 siderable quantities of American coal 

 have already been purchased for the use 

 of European navies. 



The greatest present increase of busi- 

 ness is noted in the sales of the class 

 "I fuel in which florists are most inter- 



ested, the so-caUed smokeless coals. 

 With reference to this department of 

 the market a leading coal journal says: 

 ' ' The smokeless coal business has shown 

 a decided upturn in the last week. Sales 

 during the last half of July were quite 

 heavy for two reasons: The first is that 

 the circular price advanced to $1.40 per 

 ton August 1. Retail dealers appreciate 

 that the larger companies are able to 

 maintain that circular price. Therefore, 

 they have been buying as much coal at 



July circular as they could take care of. 

 The second reason is that real estate 

 agencies have begun to buy coal for stor- 

 age in apartment houses. This is mak- 

 ing some small inroads upon retail 

 stocks. Those stocks are quite heavy 

 and could stand still greater inroads 

 without embarrassment. But the dealers 

 do not want to disturb these storage 

 piles until the heavy movement begins 

 in the latter part of September. There- 

 fore, they are taking care of apartment 



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