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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J I m: It;, 1910. 



P. J. A'an Baarda, ropresciitiiig Jo- 

 seph Breck & 8ons, has just returned 

 from a successful lousiness trip iu New 

 York and Couiiecticut. 



The (lisj)hiy of be<hliiig paiisies and 

 violets at Forest Hills cemetery is uii 

 usually line this season. Owing to the 

 cold weather, T. 11. Westwood, the su- 

 j)erintendeut gardener, has not yet done 

 any subtropical bedding. 



Considerable interest is already being 

 manifested in the coming Rochester S. 



A I'oincii pipe fdled with running 

 water ])asses through a 12-iuch pipe; the 

 space betw(H'ii the smaller and larger 

 lii[te contains the ammonia. From tlic 

 i-dudcnser tiie ammonia passes into tin' 

 coils, where the additional jiump space 

 allows it to expand. In so doing lieat 

 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 



Apparatus for Florist's Artificial Refrigerating Plant. 



A. F. convention, and a much larger 

 delegation than usual will go from 

 Boston. 



H. K. Condey, on Park street, is 

 showing some line 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 73.] 



A MODERN COOLING-ROOM. 



The accomjianying illustrations sliow 

 the cold storage system and cooling- 

 room of the S. 8. Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 Philadelphia. The first picture shows 

 the compressor, the condenser and the 

 coils of jiipe used for conveying the am- 

 monia to the cdld 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 C()ld storage 

 room which is placed by its side on the 

 first floor. 



Tht> theory of this ammonia system is 

 not understood by florists generally, who 

 believe that tiie 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 eom]>resses the ammo- 

 nia in something the way air is com- 

 pressed ; the condenser carries ofif the 

 heat of the ammonia generated by com- 

 ]tression by means of runtiiufr water. 



storage plant with a representative of 

 The Keview, 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 



must be started again, owing to the f 

 quent opening and closing of the cc 

 ing-room doors. Phil 



OBITUARY. 



H. J. Billings. 



II. ,1. Billings, of Rockland, Me., dj. >i 

 on Sunday, June 5, after an illm - 

 of only a few days. He was wi I 

 known and much esteemed in the co' 

 munity, and his sudden death was i 

 shock to his many friends. He is sh( 

 vived by his wife. His body was taki ■\ 

 to Boston for interment. 



John Maxwell. 



John Maxwell, a nurseryman of Nap . 

 Cal., died May 27, at the age of ""i 

 years. He was born in England, bii 

 had been a resident of California fi i 

 over twenty live years. He was quii.' 

 successful as a business man and as i 

 grower of fruit trees and general nui 

 sery stock. He is survived by a grown 

 up family. 



Charles Eisner. 



Charles Eisner, who was in busine-- 

 at 6105 Penn avenue, Pittsburg, P,i . 

 died Sunday morning, June 12, of pnci. 

 monia, after an illness of only t\\- 

 days. His death was so sudden and nn 

 expected as to be a peculiar shock t- 

 his friends. 



Samuel Weber. 



Samuel Weber, for seven years in 

 charge of the landscape work at tli' 

 Great Southern hotel, Gulfport, Miss , 

 was found dead in his bed June 6. He 

 was a native of Baden Baden, 42 year- 

 of age. 



Frank DeWitt. 



Frank Be Witt, florist and gardener 

 of 2285 Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn, wa- 

 drowned in the bay off Merrick, L. 1 

 June 9. Ho went out fishing with Cap 

 tains Oliver Herbert and Del Simonsoi. 

 in a sloop. In jumping from the sloop 

 to a rowboat he missed his footing an.i 

 drowned. The body has not yet beei 

 recovered. De Witt was nearly 30 year 

 of age and single. 



Wholesale Florist's Artificially Refrigerated Flower Room. 



