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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 8, 1814. 



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Greenhouse Beating. 



HOW MUCH EADIATION? 



What amount of radiation will be 

 necessary to heat two greenhouses, each 

 12x21x110 feetf The two houses have 

 been made into one. M. J. C. 



The temperature desired is not stated, 

 nor is there anything to indicate 

 whether steam or hot water is to be 

 the heating medium. 



If there is no glass in the walls and 

 tJiey are not more than five feet in 

 height, the two houses can be heated 

 with steam to 60 degrees with 900 

 square feet of radiation, for which a 

 15-horse-power to 20-horse-power boiler 

 will be desirable. With hot water about 

 1,750 square feet of radiation will be 

 needed and the boiler should have a 

 rating of at least 2,000 square feet. 

 If 50 degrees will answer, 750 square 

 feet of radiation will be needed for 

 steam and 1,400 square feet for hot 

 water. 



HEATING AN ONTABIO HOUSE. 



I am building a greenhouse 22x45 

 feet and should like to nave your advice 

 in regard to the heating of it. I have 

 a Taylor-Forbes hot-water boiler in my 

 residence, which adjoins the greenhouse. 

 It is rated at 1,000 feet of radiation. 

 The dwelling requires 425 feet of radia- 

 tion when it is all heated. Do you 

 think the boiler is large enough to heat 

 thp gCfii^nhojIlfl in addjticnt The boiler 

 is round, with fiv« paiu one above the 

 other. The firepot is twenty-#ix lnch(^s 

 in circumference. The boUar was manu- 

 factured^ to burn coal, but I have only 

 burned wood so far, with good results; 

 the smallest fyre I can keep alive gives 

 a great deal of heat. The temperature 

 sometimes reaches 20 degrees below zero 

 here in Ontario. 



In building the greenhouse, can I put 

 any glass under the eaves, and how 

 muchf I want to grow lettuce, vege- 

 tables, plants, etc. 



There will be three feet of fall be- 

 tween where I expect the returng will 

 run, under the benches, and the high- 

 water line in the boiler. The boiler is 

 plugged for two 2-inch and two 2%-inch 

 flow pipes and three 2-inch and two 



The Value of a Thermostat 



LET A FLORIST TELL IT 



TJEHE is what a greenhouse man said in a letter to The Review: "The 

 * * value of a thermostat in a greenhouse may possibly interest you, so I take 

 the present opportunity of explaining its advantages. Three weeks ago I in- 

 stalled a Standard thermostat, made by the Standard Thermometer Co., putting 

 it in my rose house, 200 feet from the residence. After s'undown each day I set 

 the low contact hand at 57 degrees and the high contact hand at 65 degrees. 

 The black temperature hand, to record 60 degrees, plays between these figures. 

 Should the temperature rise or fall, the alarm bell, just over my bed, rings 

 loudly. I consider this Instrument a boon to any florist with a me- 

 dium-sized range, for it dispenses with the services of a night fireman. With 

 correct firing, I can keep a steady temperature of 60 degrees at night in the 

 rose house and also in four other houses, in all about 5000 feet of glass."— Thomas 

 E. TowERsoN, Spring Station, Ky. 



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2^ -inch returns for heating the green- 

 house. 



You will notice from the enclosed 

 sketch that there is a door to the wood- 

 shed at the north end of the greenhouse. 

 How shall I carry the returns from the 

 east side of the house across the door- 

 way, to the Jigiler in the residence, 

 which juts a few feet eaih way into the 

 northwest corner of the greenhouse t 

 Would it be all right to drop them at 



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