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The Florists' Review 



OCTOBKE 22, 1914. 



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 Dlma Bank BMs., Datralt 



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Ilreenhottse Heating. 



SuBSCRiBEBS 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. 



CHAPIN'S ADDITIONS. 



This has been a busy season for 

 Chapin Bros., who have been making 

 large additions and improvements to 

 their range, which lies in one of the 

 prettiest suburbs of Lincoln, Neb. Two 

 semi-iron houses, 30x150; and one, 

 10x150; a brick boiler room, an 85-foot 

 smokestack, two large Kewanee boilers 

 and an entirely new heating system 

 are among the additions recently com- 

 pleted. An office and a garage are now 

 being built. 



To this firm the season now opening 

 looks especially good. There is more 

 money in circulation than ever before 

 in the middle west, as a result of the 

 big crops and high prices, which 

 should make business good for every- 

 one. 



PIPING A WASHINGTON HOUSE. 



We 'have installed a 20-horse-pow.er 

 steam boiler to heat two houses, 20x190 

 feet. We wish to keep up a temperature 

 of 60 degrees in zero weather. We lead 

 out of the dome with a 3-inch pipe 

 rising nine feet from the floor, which is 

 on a level with the top of the boiler, 

 and branching into a 2i^-inch and 3-inch 

 header. From this we run six 2-inch 

 pipes under the gutter, which has a fall 

 of two feet. These pipes drop into 

 headers of three 2-inch pipes. The lat- 

 ter lead back to the boiler with the same 

 fall, connecting with a 4-inch header, 

 which passes into a 4-inch hole at the 

 bottom of the boiler. Is our top opening 

 large enough! What steam pressure 

 must we use? Is our boiler large enough 

 c6nnecfeB'' on ' gravity ? jMI M. <G. 



About 1,500 square feet of steam 

 radiation will be required to heat the 

 two houses and this can be supplied 



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 the instrument is securely 



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 up. Locate the alarm where you w 11. All 

 necessary directions with each instrument. 



The price of this absnlntaly perfect 

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Mention Tbe Berlfw wben yoo write. 



by a 20-horse-power boiler, although a 

 slightly larger one would be better for 

 tlie purpose. 



By using a 4-inch flow pipe the circu- 



New Brick Stack of Chapin Bros. 



lation will be improvedj but if a pres- 

 sure of thirty pounds is carried, the flow 

 need not be larger than 3-inch, and a 

 21/^-inch pipe will answer for each of 



the houses. I should prefer to run this 

 as an overhead flow pipe about two feet 

 below the ridge and put in nine 1^-inch 

 returns in each house. A 2-inch pipe 

 will be sufficiently large to connect all 

 of the returns in each house to the 

 boiler. 



' Ag near as I can determine from the 

 description of the present piping, there 

 are twelve 2-inch returns in each house, 

 which is nearly twice the number neces- 

 sary. 



PIPING AN ELL-SHAPED HOUSE. 



Enclosed you will find a rough draw- 

 ing of a greenhouse which I wish to 

 heat with hot water. My location is 

 northwestern Pennsylvania. I have 

 plenty of 3-inch pipe and about 1,2 >0 

 feet of li/^-inch pipe. There will be a 

 bench at each side of the house and a 

 solid bed in the center. The walls ve 

 wood, covered with paper. There i.e 

 four feet of glass in the east and w< st 

 ends of the ell. The boiler is ca t- 

 iron and has two S^^-inch openings Mr 

 flows and two openings of the sai le 

 size for returns. It has a rating >f 

 1,850 feet. Is it large enough to he it 

 tne bouse to 50 degrees when the oi t- 

 side temperature is 10 degrees beli w 

 zero? A. E. H. 



One section of the sketch appareni y 

 shows the main part of the house to '« 

 14x72 feet, with an ell eighteen f f -* 

 wide and thirty-four feet long, extei'i' 

 ing across the end of the house. Tne 

 only glass in the walls is at the eo3t 



