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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



AOGDST 11, 1910 



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GEO. B. LIMBERT & GO. 



557 Fulton St, CHICAGO 



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 Wroosht Iroa Pipe 



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fireenhoose fleatiag. 



Coal prices advanced 10 cents a ton 

 August 1. There will be other advances. 

 Why wait? 



Wendland «& Keimel, Elmhurst, 111., 

 gave an order August 4, to the Poca- 

 hontas Coal Sales Co., 277 Dearborn 

 street, Chicago, for 400 tons of Poca- 

 hontas coal for immediate delivery. 



The strike of the Illinois coal miners, 

 not only is not settled, but looks to be 

 even in a worse position than before. 

 The miners' union president made a set- 

 tlement with the operators, which the 

 miners themseKes^romptly repudiated. 

 It a^ears/"tnat the men will have to set- 

 tle their'differences among themselves be- 

 fore there is any chance of a settlement 

 with the employers. In the meantime the 

 production of coal is light, the season of 

 active demand rapidly approaching and 

 greenhouse owners should be getting busy 

 stocking up. 



CHANGING TO STEAM HEAT. 



At present I have three connected 

 houses, each 16x40 feet, running north 

 and south. The whole of the present 

 building, therefore, is 40x48 feet, with 

 three feet of glass in the sides and five 

 feet of glass in the gables. The rafters 

 are nine feet long. The temperature 

 needed in these houses is 50 to 55 de- 

 grees. I propose to build two more 

 houses, running east from the present 

 range. One of the new houses, the south 

 one, will be 16x60 and will require a 

 temperature of 65 degrees. The other 

 new house, which is to be heated to 50 

 degrees, will be 16x30, with the boiler 

 house at the outer end of it. The new 

 houses will have 5-foot solid walls, 

 boarded and lined on both sides. 



The present houses are heated, with 

 hot water, but I wish hereafter to heat 

 the whole range with steam, carrying a 

 pressure of ten pounds or more. Four- 

 inch pipe is now used as wall radiators, 

 and the three houses contain, besides, a 

 total of seven coils, each coil composed 

 of seven l^/^-inch pipes, thirty-seven 

 feet long. Please state what changes I 

 must make in the three houses and what 

 piping is needed in the new ones.' In 

 this part of Iowa the temperature some- 

 times goes down to 30 degrees below 

 zero. H. N. A. 



To heat the present houses, 16x40 

 feet, to 55 degrees with steam, will re- 

 quire eight 1^-inch pipes in the mid- 

 dle house and nine in those having glass 

 in the side walls. 



Save Money by Using 



OAVIS' COMBINATION CHECK AND 

 ^^ GLOBE VALVES ^^? 



On Steam Heating Systems. 



Better than any other check valve fi .r 

 any purposes, but especially adapted 

 for use on pipes leading to steam 

 boilers and from heating pipes to re- 

 turn pipe. The combination valve 

 takes the place of two valves, a cheek 

 value and a globe valve, and gives 

 much better satisfaction, making 

 simple and short connections, saving 

 valves, nipples, labor and money. 



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W. B. DAVIS 



Aurora, Illinois 



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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, Utica, N. Y., voluntarily writes:— 



" I am very much pleased to let you know that the Damper Retrulator 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 savinur 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 ofif 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 facts like these worth an 

 investigation ? 



Circular Free. 



Kins MANUFAGTUBING GO. 



Oswego, N. Y. 



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For the proposed house, lGx60 feet, to 

 be heated to 65 degrees, ten li^-inch 

 pipes will be required. In the new 

 house, 16x30 feet, to be heated to 50 

 degrees, eight l^^-inch pipes would be 

 sufficient. As the 4-inch pipes are on 

 hand, there will be no serious objection 

 to using i them for the flows, although 

 smaller pipe would answer in most cases. 



STEAM FOB ENLABGED HOUSE. 



I have tvvo houses, each 20x52, which 

 are heated with a Furman hot water 

 boiler, No. 3,008. One of my houses is 

 old, and I intend to tear it down, build 

 it twice as wide and get the steam at- 

 tachments. I have three 3-inch flow 

 pipes in each house, and fifteen 2-inch 

 returns in one and eighteen in the other. 

 The returns are close under the benches, 

 which are low. By placing the returns 

 on the side wall and near the edge of 

 the benches, would I not have enough 

 radiation for the additional space? I 

 have never had any trouble to keep the 



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houses warm, and do not wish to chaige 

 the size of my boiler. I am located in 

 northern Ohio. 



The house which the new one will j'^'ii' 

 has a 3-foot wall, and I wish a 6^-f'-ot 

 wall on the other side. How steep a 

 slant should the roof have! Coul'' I 

 have an even span, or will I need a 

 longer slope on the low side? Are ^h® 

 building blocks all right for the side? 



W. L. W. 



As I understand the main part of the 

 question, it is whether three 3-inch flows 

 and fifteen or more 2-inch returns will 



