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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 14, 1910. 



It 18 generally better to use hot water 

 in small houses. An upright boiler can 

 be used if the cellar is sufficiently deep 

 to bring the return above the top of 

 the boiler. 



A good way to pipe the house will be 

 to run a 2% -inch flow on each plate 

 and use ten 2-inch returns, with five 

 on each of the side walls, provided 60 

 degrees is desired. For 50 degrees only 

 eight returns will be required. The 

 boiler should be rated for about 800 

 square feet of radiating surface. 



IMPROVED THERMOSTATS. 



An officer of the Standard Thermom- 

 eter Co., Boston, states that in the last 

 season or two they have received a 

 number of requests from florists for a 

 special thermostat, the device that rings 

 a bell at a distant point whenever the 

 temperature in a greenhouse goes above 

 or below the points at which the alarm 

 is wanted. Some florists have asked 

 for a thermostat in a sealed case, to 

 prevent derangement by excessive 

 dampness, and others have asked that it 

 be locked, so that no one except the man 

 with most at stake could change the 

 degree at which the bell would ring. 

 To meet these calls the company has 

 been at work on a special instrument 

 that it now has perfected. It is her- 

 metically sealed so as to be impervious 

 to moisture and is also padlocked so 

 that no one except the man who carries 

 the key can touc^ the instrument. 

 Supply houses also handle a registering 

 thermometer made by this concern, that 

 is in a padlocked case. Manv growers 

 use them. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



The weather in Pittsburg has been 

 hotter than — well, it has been so hot 

 that business is not thought of. A few 

 little trades in flowers are made from 

 day to day, but not enough to talk 

 about as business. 



There are still some good roses, lilies, 

 valley and America gladioli; sweet peas 

 are cooked when they reach the city. 

 A few asters are making their appear- 

 ance, but no one seems to want them. 



Various Notes. 



On the great and glorious Fourth, 

 the Allison Park carnation belt was 

 well represented in the grand parade 

 which the village makes every Inde- 

 pendence day. Uncle John Wyland 

 was conspicuous in handling the reins 

 over a span of beautiful ponies drawing 

 a float decorated with carnations and 

 greens. Albert Lorch had a float with 

 a miniature greenhouse planted in car- 

 nations. T. P. Langhans, in his won- 

 derful shay, drawn by his grand and 

 noble steed Jenco, helped make up a 

 parade that could only receive justice 

 at the hands of the writer of the "Bifig- 

 ville Bugle." 



The I. S. Crall Co., Monongahela, Pa., 

 is busy putting up a couple of new 

 houses for cut flowers. 



A number of the employees of the 

 A. W. Smith Co., including Earl Tip- 

 ton, wife and family, Morris Stein and 

 Alden Gross, left July 1 for Canfield, 

 C, the home of the Altimo Culture Co., 

 one of this company's outside branches; 

 here they will live in tents and, while 

 they will assist in the work of the gar- 

 dens, at the same time they will be 

 laying up a reserve force of energy for 



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Would You Save One-Quarter of Your Coal Bill? 



= INSTALL 



A Kitts Improved Hydraulic Damper Regulator. 



Florist Peter Crowe, Rose Place, Utlca, N. Y., voluntarily writes:— 



" I am very much pleased to let you know that the Damper Regulator I bought from you 

 last fall is by far the best apparatus for greenhouse purposes. I had my book-keeper compare 

 my coal bill of last with that of this year and I find a saving of one quarter the amount of 

 this year's coal over last year's; also the past winter was a great deal colder and longer than 

 the winter before. 



" There is another very good feature about the Damper Regulator, as it keeps a uniform 

 heat in all the houses at all times by putting on and shutting off pipes. And I find that my 

 Roses and Ferns did far better this winter than any winter so far, as the temperature was so 

 uniform at all times. 



" My reason for writing you is to let you know, and also to thank you for bringing my 

 attention to the Regulator, and I assure you I cannot speak too highly of this machine." 



Are not fact* like tbese worth an 

 investigation ? 



Circular Free. 



KITTS MANUFACTURING GO. 



Oswego, N. Y. 



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THE KROESCHELL BOILER 

 NOT CAST IRON 



HAS 



WIITEB 



FRONT 

 SIDES 

 TOP 

 BACK 



Haw Ostftlogae and prices on application. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co. 



444 Erie St., Chicago 



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