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Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But pleasjk do not 

 ask The Review to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus 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. 



CAPACITY OF BOILER. 



I want to ask you whether an upright 

 steam boiler four feet in diameter, with 

 6-foot flues, has sufiScient capacity to 

 heat two greenhouses, connected, whose 

 total floor space is 60x125 feet. Our 

 location is northern Wyoming. We have 

 had no experience with upright boilers 

 and are at a loss to know how they 

 heat. J. H. L. 



Had the size of the grate been given, 

 it would have been possible to tell much 

 more definitely the size of the house it 

 would heat. If the grate is three feet 

 in diameter, it should handle 6,000 

 square feet of glass at 60 degrees, or 

 15,000 square feet at 50 degrees, about 

 the size of the house described. 



In using an upright boiler, care must 

 be taken to have it placed low enough 

 so that the drip water will be returned 

 by gravity. If this cannot be done, a 

 steam trap should be connected with 

 the returns. In piping such a house, I 

 would use three 2V^-inch flows and 

 twenty 1^-inch returns for 60 degrees, 

 and fifteen returns for 50 degrees. 



HOUSES ON A HILLSIDE. 



I am submitting a plan of my green- 

 houses, which I wish to heat with hot 

 water. The houses run east and west. 

 They are built on a hillside and the 

 flouth wall is in the ground up to the 

 eaves. The boiler room is at the north- 

 west corner of the range. The side 

 walls are concrete and are five feet 

 high. There is not much exposed wall, 

 as the west ends of the houses are pro- 

 tected by the workroom and storeroom, 

 and the south wall, as already stated, 

 i<* sunk in the ground. The boiler will 



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"RICHARDSON" 

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Were first put on the market many years ago. They 

 were quickly recognized as possessing special adapta- 

 bility to greenhouse requirements and have been sold 

 to florists in steadily increasing numbers as the green- 

 house industry has expanded. 



A boiler must be a good bollor— and mad* by a strong, dspond- 

 able manufacturer— to have withstood the stress off competition 

 ffor so many years. 



The "Richardson" line has developed with the needs 

 of the trade. The "Richardson" now is made in sixty 

 sizes, round, end feed, side feed — all sectional — for hot 

 water and steam. They are low priced, but, better yet, 

 they are fuel savers. 



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be in the basement or cellar, seven 

 feet six inches below the floor level 



of the greenhouses. Can you offer *WI 

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