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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 18, 1910. 



Wilks Greenhouse Boilers 



Are best for small greenhouses, etc. They 



are made of heavy boiler plate and are 



fully guaranteed. 



Have no Cast Iron Sections to Crack 

 No Night Fireman Required 



With the Wilks Self-feeding Hot Water Boilers. Keep 

 an even and continuous fire for ten hours and longer 



without attention. 



VERY ECONOMICAL IN FUEL 



Send for Catalogue and Prices. 



S. WILKS MFG. CO. 



3523 Shields Avenue, CHICAQO 



Mention The Keview when you write. 



tana, where the temperature may go 

 as low as 40 degrees below zero, though 

 only an rare occasions? What size of 

 boiler will be needed? Will a stack 

 thirty feet high and thirty inches in 

 diameter be sufficient? The houses will 

 be on level ground. How deep should 

 the boiler pit be, to give a good return 

 without the use of a steam trap? 



N. K. S. 



To heat the houses described, with 

 steam, will require for the rose house 

 one 2M!-iDch flow and ten l^-inch re- 

 turns, and for the carnation house one 

 flow and eight returns, with one extra 

 return in the south house, which has 

 three feet of glass in the wall. A twen- 

 ty-five horse-power boiler will be de- 

 sirable, and for this use a 24-inch chim- 

 ney, forty feet high. 



To secure a free return of the water 

 in the coils, it will be advisable to 

 have the top of the boiler at least two 

 feet below the lower end of the coils. 



A PITTSBXTRG EANOE. 



We wish to obtain your advice on the 

 heating of our greenhouses, part of 

 which are old, while others are now 

 being erected. The old part of the 

 range consists mainly of four houses, 

 running east and west. The north one 

 of these four is a carnation house, 

 42x116. The next house, for bedding 

 plants, is 22x102, with a potting shed 

 at the west end of it. Next is a prop- 

 agating house, 19x116. The south house, 

 32x116, is for roses. At the northeast 

 corner of these old houses is the office. 

 Extending south from the office, along 

 the east end of the greenhouses, is a 

 frontal house, 18x92, for ferns and 

 palms. 



At the west end of these houses is 

 an alley, extending north and south and 

 separating the old part of the range 

 from the new. The three new houses, 

 each 27x200, run west from this alley, 

 though two of them — the north two — 



THE KITTS 

 Improved Hydraulic Damper Regulator 



IS. 



A MONEY 

 SAVER 



When overhauling for the winter why not 

 install one and save money? Now is the 

 time to order. Write for full particulars. 



KITTS MANUFACTURING CO 



OSWEGO, NEW YORK 



The Standard 

 Steam Trap 



Is acknowledged the best for the 

 florist, because it is durable and does 

 its work without trouble and annoy- 

 ance, saving its cost by the economy 

 in coal bills. 



C. HIPPARD, Youngstown, Ohio 



Pipe Fittings -- Imico Boilers 



-FOR GREENHOUSE WORK- 



ILLINOIS MALLEABLE IRON CO. 



1801-1825 DIVER8ST BOUUBVARD CHICAGO 



