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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



June 8, 1911. 



FLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write, the 

 editor of the Heating ^Department, de- 

 scribing their troubles or asking any 

 questions regarding the heating of green- 

 houses, the piping or boiler-room. But 

 please do not ask us to make a choice of 

 apparatus for you. Each boiler adver- 

 tised in The Keview is a good boiler, and 

 the advertisers sell them on their merits. 



THE COAL MARKET. 



The situation in the coal market this 

 spring is exactly the reverse of the 

 situation one year ago. Last season 

 many mines were tied up by strikes. 

 This was especially true of the western 

 district, and the eastern mines, pro- 

 ducing such coals as Pocahontas, had 

 the field almost to themselves. Coal 

 was in short supply all through the 

 summer, and there were dire forebod- 

 ings as to what would happen once 

 winter set in. At no time during the 

 season were there any car shortages or 

 freight blockades, and once the west- 

 ern mines got their labor troubles set- 

 tled production was so heavy that coal 

 was at a discount all season long. 

 Consumption averaged less than usual, 

 and this spring the market has been 

 in a condition some coal men describe 

 as bordering on demoralization. There 

 are more cars of coal on track at prac- 

 tically all the centers than there are 

 buyers who care to take them in. This 

 looks like a favorable time for florists 

 to fill their bins. 



TWO CONNECTED HOUSES. 



We are building two houses, each 

 30x150 feet. The houses will be con- 

 nected. They will be built on ground 

 that slopes to the east. There is about 

 four feet of a drop in the 150 feet. 

 The boiler will be at the east end of the 

 houses. The walls of the houses are 

 six feet high and the ridge is thirteen 

 feet from the ground. We want a tem- 

 perature of 65 degrees at night and 70 

 to 80 degrees in the daytime, at 5 de- 

 grees below zero. There are four beds 

 on the floor, the full length of the 

 house. How many 2-inch flows and re- 

 turns will be needed and where would 

 you place them to get the best results? 

 Where would you place the expansion 

 tank? We want to use the gravity sys- 

 tem, to help the flow of water. The 

 supply tank will be above the houses, 

 on the higher ground. What size of 

 feed pipe will be needed! What size 

 of boiler 1 H. B. 



To heat a house 30x150 feet to 65 

 degrees in weather 5 degrees below zero 

 would require either nineteen or twenty 

 8-iacli pipes, according to the exposure 



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and condition of the houses. Except 

 under exceptionally favorable circum- 

 stances, not more than 250 square feet 

 of radiation should be supplied by a 

 2-inch flow pipe. Too few flows give a 

 sluggish circulation and lessen the 

 efficiency of the system. Not less than 

 seven 2-inch flows should be used and 

 eight would be better, but when a 

 greenhouse is more than seventy-five 

 feet long I think it is more satisfac- 

 tory if 2 14 inch flow pipes are used. A 

 desirable plan would be to start from 

 the boiler, either with one 4-inch or two 

 3-inch main flow pipes for. each house, 

 and break these up so as to have four 

 21^ -inch flows and fifteen 2-inch returns 

 in each of the houses. The flows should 

 have a slight fall and two can be 

 placed on the side walls, and two on 

 the purlin posts or suspended from the 

 roof. To supply the two houses the 

 boiler should be of sufficient size to 

 supply 4,000 square feet of radiating 

 surface. 



A TILE AND CONCBETE STACK. 



wl?, ;l)uilii 'a smokestack, thirty-two 

 feet high, of 15-inch terra-cotta pipe, 

 cementing all the joints thoroughly. 

 Then, procuring some 16-inch boards, 

 we made a wooden form, two and one- 

 half feet square and sixteen inches 

 high, around the terra-cotta. Having 

 a supply of coal ashes that contained 

 plenty of fine dust, we mixed the ashes 

 with cement in the proportion of one 

 part of cement to five of ashes, mak- 



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ing the mixture almost as thin as 

 water. We hoisted this to the top of 

 the 16-inch boards, poured it in and 

 continually kept tamping it with a 

 long pole. When this form was filled 

 we made another, and so on to the 

 top of the stack. After two weeks we 

 took the forms down and we had a 

 good and cheap stack. 



A stack of any ordinary size could 

 be built in this way, and the price of 

 the terra-cotta would be about the 

 same as the cost, in labor, time and 

 material, of inside forms. 



Benj. J. Passmore. 



SOUTHINGTON, CONN. 



The Market. 



Memorial day business, on the whole, 

 was highly satisfactory. All fears that 

 flowers would be scarce proved ground- 

 less. Carnations were of good quality. 

 There was a large amount of funeral 

 work, and many wedding bouquets 

 were also made during the rush. This 

 is the month of weddings, and business, 

 as a consequence, should be good. 



Various Notes. 



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Olson & Lunden had great success in 

 disposing of their large supply of cut 

 flowers. Their Shasta daisies looked 

 fine last week, being one mass of 

 blooms. 



Otto Glueck, of Marion, hit it right 

 with his sweet peas for Decoration 

 day. They were in great demand. 



William Fischer, of Buckland street, 



