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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



July 14, 1910. 



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THE COAL MABKET. 



The Illinois mines, with the excep- 

 tion of a few in the Belleville district, 

 have been shut down on account of a 

 miners' strike since March 31, and this 

 has had a tendency to keep up the price 

 on all bituminous coal because the sup- 

 ply has been restricted chiefly to the 

 West Virginia and Indiana fields. How- 

 ever, it looks as though a settlement 

 will be reached and work resumed some- 

 time before August 1. This will be 

 none too soon, as the shipping of coal 

 is likely to be exceptionally heavy in 

 the early fall, in an endeavor to fore- 

 stall a shortage of cars that threatens 

 to be even worse than last year. 



There are now only a third as many 

 idle coal cars as there were a year ago 

 at this time, and the indications point 

 to a heavy increase in coal buying in 

 the next few months. It seems, there- 

 fore, as though nothing can prevent a 

 more serious car famine this fall than 

 has been experienced in many years. 

 It therefore behooves the florists to 

 have an ample stock on hand at the be- 

 ginning of the season and run no risks 

 of a freeze-up next winter. It is almost 

 certain that the price will advance 

 steadily from now on, so the wise ones 

 will buy now, thereby saving much 

 money, time and worry. 



USING 4-INCH PIPE. 



I intend to build two even-span 

 houses, running east and west. Each 

 house will be 20x86 feet, twelve feet 

 to the ridge and six feet to the gutters. 

 They will be connected. The north wall 

 will be built of 8-inch concrete blocks 

 to the gutter. The east gables will be 

 glass down to within three feet of the 

 ground, and the lower three feet will 

 be concrete blocks. The south wall will 

 have three feet of glass and three feet 

 of double linch boards. The west 

 gables will be joined to a shed. 



I intend to use 4-inch pipe, as I have 

 some of it on hand. Will two overhead 

 flows and four returns under the 

 benches be sufficient in each house, to 

 heat them to 55 degrees, with the out- 

 side temperature at 10 degrees below 

 zero? Should the flow pipes rise or fall 

 to the farther end of the houses? Any 

 information you can give me will be 

 appreciated. I am located in southeast- 

 ern Wisconsin. A. R. 



To heat the north house, seven 4-inch 

 pipes will answer. Of these, two should 

 be flows and the others returns. The 



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extra return should be on the exposed 

 side of the house. The south house, 

 which has three feet of glass in the 

 side wall, should have eight 4-ineh 

 pipes. Either two, three or four can 

 be flows, according to the arrangement 

 of the benches. 



The best circulation can be secured 

 when the flow pipes have a slight fall, 

 but, if the boiler is below the level, it 

 is often more convenient to give a rise 

 to the flows when 4-inch pipe is used. 



A SMALL HOUSE. 



Will you please tell me how to pipe 

 a greenhouse, 18x38 feet; five feet six 

 inches high on the south side, seven feet 

 high on the north side and fourteen feet 

 high in the center, with glass in both 

 ends? There will be two benches, each 

 six feet wide, with a walk eighteen inches 

 wide at the sides and a 3-foot walk in 

 the center. My boiler has a capacity of 

 450 feet. How many 1 14 -inch, l^^-inch 

 or 2-inch pipes will be needed? What 

 will be the best way to heat it to 70 de- 

 grees at 20 degrees below zero? It is 

 Wisconsin climate. The flows are 2-inch 

 pipe. The boiler will be down about 

 two and one-half feet below the return 

 coil. W. I. S. 



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temperature of 70 degrees in this house, 

 with water in the boiler at 180 degrees, 

 when it is 20 degrees below zero outdoors. 



F. E. 



It is inferred from the size of your 

 plant that hot water is the style of heat- 

 ing to be used. On this basis, using 1%- 

 inch pipe with 2-inch flow pipes or ris- 

 ers, it will be necessary to install twenty- 

 one lines of lVi>-inch pipe to maintain a 



THREE VIOLET HOUSES. 



I have three violet houses. 18x100 

 feet and seven feet to the ridge, with 

 three feet of board wall on the north 

 side and two feet on the south. I should 

 greatly appreciate your kindness if you 

 could tell me what system of piping 

 would be best to use for hot water. I 

 have a lot of 3-inch and 2-inch pipes, 

 and should like to use them. The b<Mj*T 

 pit is at the end of the middle house, 

 and is three feet deep; I could not get 

 it deeper, as the ground is low. There 

 is a space of five feet between each two 

 houses. My idea is to run a 3-incli flow 

 to the end of the north house and one 



