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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



June 16, 1910. 



P. J. Van Baarda, representing Jo- 

 seph Breck & Sons, has just returned 

 from a successful business trip in New 

 York and Connecticut. 



The display of bedding pansies and 

 violets at Forest Hills cemetery is un- 

 usually fine this season. Owing to the 

 cold weather, T. H. Westwood, the su- 

 perintendent gardener, has not yet done 

 any subtropical bedding. 



Considerable interest is already being 

 manifested in the coming Bochester S. 



A 11/^ -inch pipe filled with running 

 water passes through a 2-inch pipe; the 

 space between the smaller and larger 

 pipe contains the ammonia. From the 

 condenser the ammonia passes into the 

 coils, where the additional pump space 

 allows it to expand. In so doing heat 

 is absorbed. The ammonia passes from 

 the coils by a return pipe back to the 

 compressor. 



Samuel S. Pennock, president of the 

 company, when discussing this cold 



must be started again, owing to the fre- 

 quent opening and closing of the cot]. 

 ing-room doors. Phil. 



OBITUAEY. 



Apparatus for Florist's Artificial Refrigerating Plant 



A. F. convention, and a much larger 

 delegation than usual will go from 

 Boston. 



H. E. Comley, on Park street, is 

 showing some fine Bouvardia Hum- 

 boldtii. 



Howard Burr, of South Sudbury, has 

 sold out his greenhouse interests to 

 Alfred M. Eaton, who will consign all 

 his flowers to B. J. McGinty, 2 Park 

 street. 



Miss Elizabeth Washington, sister of 

 Booker Washington, the well-known 

 Stoughton florist, was married June 7. 

 [Continued on page 75.] 



A MODERN COOUNG-BOOM. 



The accompanying illustrations show 

 the cold storage system and cooling- 

 room of the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 Philadelphia. The first picture shows 

 the compressor, the condenser and the 

 coils of pipe used for conveying the am- 

 monia to the cold storage room shown 

 in the second illustration. There are 

 also two other cold storage rooms, one 

 a freezer for ferns, galax, etc., on the 

 lower floor with the machinery, the 

 other a duplicate of this cold storage 

 room which is placed by its side on the 

 first floor. 



The theory of this ammonia system is 

 not understood by florists generally, who 

 believe that the ammonia coils give out 

 cold air, so cooling the temperature of 

 the room. This is not the case. The 

 ammonia pipes absorb heat, thus re- 

 ducing the temperature of the room. 

 The compressor compresses the ammo- 

 nia in something the way air is com- 

 pressed; the condenser carries off the 

 heat of the ammonia generated by com- 

 pression by means of running water. 



storage plant with a representative of 

 The Review, said he felt well pleased 

 with this plant; it does the work bet- 

 ter than ice, is far less bulky and re- 

 quires less labor to operate. Mr. Pen- 

 nock said that cost of the ammonia is 

 comparatively small, and that the tank 

 connected with the machinery requires 

 filling only three or four times a year. 

 He further stated that when the engi- 

 neer closes down at night the cooling- 

 room will remain at the same tempera- 

 ture until morning, when the machinery 



H. J. BilUngs. 



H. J. Billings, of Eockland, Me., died 

 on Sunday, June 5, after an illness 

 of only a few days. He was well 

 known and much esteemed in the com- 

 munity, and his sudden death was a 

 shock to his many friends. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife. His body was taken 

 to Boston for interment. 



John Maxwell. 



John Maxwell, a nurseryman of Napa, 

 Cal., died May 27, at the age of 5;1 

 years. He was born in England, but 

 had been a resident of California for 

 over twenty-five years. He was quite 

 successful as a business man and as a 

 grower of fruit trees and general nur- 

 sery stock. He is survived by a grown 

 up family, 



Charles Eisner. 



Charles Eisner, who was in business 

 at 6105 Penn avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., 

 died Sunday morning, June 12, of pneu- 

 monia, after an illness of only two 

 days. His death was so sudden and un- 

 expected as to be a peculiar shock to 

 his friends. 



Samuel Weber. 



Samuel Weber, for seven years in 

 charge of the landscape work at the 

 Great Southern hotel, Gulfport, Miss., 

 was found dead in his bed June 6. He 

 was a native of Baden-Baden, 42 years 

 of age. 



Frank DeWitt. 



Frank De Witt, florist and gardener, 

 of 2285 Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn, was 

 drowned in the bay off Merrick, L. I., 

 June 9. He went out fishing with Cap- 

 tains Oliver Herbert and Del Simonsou 

 in a sloop. In jumping from the sloop 

 to a rowboat he missed his footing and 

 drowned. The body has not yet been 

 recovered. De Witt was nearly 30 years 

 of age and single. 



Wholesale Florist's ArtificiaUy Refrigerated Flower Room. 



