June 30, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



69 



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^^H temperature, you can 



^^ adjust to get more 



heat. Look into this 

 this summer, when making changes, and install 

 a valve and be free from worry next winter. 



We Also Make Traps and Other Devices. 



Send for our Catalogue. 



Hoghson Steam Specialty Co. 



Successors to the John Davis Company 



5021-5023 S. State St., CHICAGO 



To Obtain The Best Results 



from your heating plant you should use steam 

 and control same with a 



Hughson Regulating Valve 



Always carry 40 to 50 pounds pressure on the boiler and 

 set your regulating valve for 5 or 10 pounds; then, in ca^e 

 of a sudden drop in 



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F1.0IU vr«- aureus. 



WIRE WORK 



* SI»«CIALTV 



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 ai(hMn stM= apKi.itr od. 



Obioi^o, 111. 

 Otntl Mats- 

 Is Tfpljr to TOUT f.Tor sf th. Bth *.ktn« bm 

 » ltli«l th. two .l(lit Inoh «llT)i. RMhioln« TUT., w. 

 boufht of rou two yMr. .go. Th... xtt tUv*. h*t. l>Mn In 

 osn.tuit Um .inc. thn vA haT< glron tht T.ry bMt kind of 

 ••rrlo.. Iti. twp.ratur.. Imt. T<rt.il m moh out dMr. lurlnf 

 th. put trc *int«. th«t it .«• a giMt uirlng haTtnji <hM. 

 riduolng TiQTn .eiktn] m nlcrtr th«t w. oould oontral out 

 tMPOTatur. In.id. th. hou... with Ttry Itttl. flnetuatton. A 

 iMlwn hMtlsf 7luit could not ].t alo*! without tha. 

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Mention The Revieiy when you write. 



"We have use for over 100 of these 

 valves in our establishment, where there 

 are as many check valves npw, and few 

 indeed of these latter are in good work- 

 ing order. ' ' 



PIPE FACTS. 



In connection with an advertisement 

 of its pipe wrench, Kroeschell Bros. Co. 

 is sending to steamfitters a "Standard 

 Pipe Card," from which the following 

 is selected: 



Size of ""-hS «| c- ^^" 



M-S* SS ■="- mS 



o JS ^ 5« G 2, a-:::: 



J M ^ i^ 



1 2.90 .344 .040 .373 



1>4 2.30 .434 .063 .648 



1% 2.01 .497 .091 .883 



2 1.61 .621 .163 1.454 



2% 1.32 .752 .255 2.072 



3 1.09 .916 .367 3.202 



3% 95 1.044 .500 4.2&T 



4 84 1.178 .642 5.517 



4% 76 1.309 .826 6.9(J8 



5 62 1.590 1.02 8.608 



6 57 1.733 1.46 12.521 



THBEE ILLINOIS HOUSES. 



Will you please inform me as to the 

 best arrangement of the piping in my 

 three greenhouses? The houses run 

 east and west and are 116 feet long. 

 Two of them are each twenty-four feet 

 wide and the north house is twelve feet 

 wide. The outside walls are concrete. 

 The beds are concrete and are one foot 



The Superior Standard 



Return Flue Fire Box Boiler 

 contains more heating surface, and less water space than any other steel boiler 



Ask the man 

 tiiat knows, the 

 one using dif- 

 ferent style 

 boilers— names 

 nre yours, for 

 the asking. 



H ot the HeatlnK Surface Is In tlie Tubes 



After usins 

 our boiler one 

 season, you will 

 say like all oth- 

 ers: "Nothing 

 but 'Superior' 

 for me." 



This boiler has given better satisfaction than any other boiler on the market 



Made tn Nine (9) sizes for Hot Water 



Bend for catalogue and list of (rowers tliat are uslnc tills boiler 



Superior Machine and Boiler Works, w. /.t'Ho'At.. Chicago, III. 





Mention The Review when you write. 



glass in the east end 

 the west end is pro- 



high. There is 

 of the houses; 

 tected by 

 I'oal shed, 

 degrees. 



I have a forty horse-power Kewanee 

 steam boiler and a Detroit steam trap. 



J. E. F. 



IS 



the office, boiler room and 

 I want a temperature of 60 



For each of the houses 24x116, use one 



2i/;-inch overhead flow pipe and ten 

 11/4 -inch returns. The flows can be 

 carried on the overhead brace rods and 

 there can be three returns on each wall 

 and two in each of the side walks, on 

 the purlin posts. In the cool house, 

 which is 12x116 feet, with an exposed 

 wall of concrete, use one 2-inch flow 

 and three li/>-inch return pipes. 



To connect the flow pipes with the 



