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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Sei'tembeh 23, 19011 



No more broken fittings 

 or mutilated pipe. .*. .*. 



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Tripp's Pipe Joint 

 Compound 



It seals the joint but never 

 sets hard. 



Joints can ALWAYS 

 be unscrewed. 



The Alan H Tripp Co. 



860 S. Clark Street, 

 CHICAGO 



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vided with a 3-incli flow under the ridge 

 and eighteen li/4-inch returns. The re- 

 turns may be arranged on the outside 

 walls and upon the purlin supports, or 

 <listributed uniformly over the surface of 

 the bench and about eighteen or twenty 

 inches above it. In either case it will be 

 well to place valves at each end of at 

 least six runs of pipe in each house. 



OIL FOR HEATING. 



Which of the two is cheaper for ob- 

 taining steam heat in a greenhouse — 

 (lean lump coal at 12 cents per bushel or 

 fuel oil at 7 cents per gallon, taking into 

 consideration time and labor? I have 

 one house, 20x75 feet, and am erecting 

 another of the same area. I heat with 

 a tubular, return flue boiler. Here, in 

 southeastern Iowa, I can obtain either 

 loal or oil at any time. O. S. 



The actual cost of heat will be a little 

 greater with the oil, but when cost of 

 firing and the removal of ashes is con- 

 sidered, possibly the oil will prove more 

 economical, but most of the oil plants 

 have gone back to coal. 



RADIATION. 



Kindly let me know if two 2-inch flows 

 and four 2-inch returns will heat a green- 

 house 16x40 feett Do you recommend 

 four 2-inch or two 3-inch returns under 

 each bench? The house is to grow gen- 

 eral stock in Ontario. V. M. 



To maintain a temperature of 50 de- 

 grees with a boiler temperature of 180 

 degrees the house 16x40 should have at 

 least nine 2-inch pipes. One of these 

 can be arranged to act as a flow, or 

 riser, and eight as returns or radiators. 



We regret we can give you no general 

 rule for the use of pipes of various sizes. 

 Bach house must be piped according to 

 the crops to be grown and the heat and 

 siae of pipe to be used. 



ANOTHER BOILER LETS GO. 



A boiler explosion in the greenhouse on 

 the estate of Mrs. J. D. L. Layng, at 

 Mt. Kisco, N. Y., September 13, severely 

 injured Hugh Burch, a gardener, one of 

 his legs being broken, and he was badly 

 bruised about the body. He was taken 

 to a New York hospital. 



GET WISE 



to the fact 



you will 



by installing The Martin RocklnB Grate. Costs a little more than ordinary 



grates, but the coal bums— it doesn't go into the ashpit. 

 We refer to Peter Reinbergr, Emil Buettner, Bassett & Washburn, Wietor Bros., Adam Zender, 

 Sinner Bros., Albert Dickinson Seed Co., and many others. Tbey will tell you to order the Marttn 

 Kockins Grate for the new boilers to be put in this season. Write for catalogue and prices. 



MARTIN GRATE CO., 



283 Dearborn St. 

 CHICAGO 



Send order no^e— we will make up the crates and hold until you say ship 



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Do Not Forget 



While overhauliag your greenhouse 

 and making ready for next seas- 

 on's busineee, you should install a 



STANDARD 



THERMOSTAT 



STYLE 1 

 Diameter, 6 in. Price, $5.00 each 

 It will save you time, worry and fuel 



Mknasha. Wis., Jan. 9, 1909. 

 The Parker Mfq, Co.. 



Boston, Mass. 

 Qentlemen: Thermostat continues 

 to work to entire satisfaction and has 

 earned its cost the first month by sav- 

 ing S5.00 worth of fuel. 



Yours very truly, 



Jos. B. Froehljch. 



Standard Thermometer Co. 



(Suoceiaors to Parker tatg. Co.) 

 65 Shirley St., BOSTON, M/IlSS. 



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IMICO 



Hot Water Boilers 



Made by 





ILLINOIS MALLEABLE IRON GL 



1801-1825 Diversey Boulevard 



CHICAGO 



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The explosion occurred in the small 

 boiler-room adjoining the greenhouse. 

 Plumbers had been putting asbestos 

 around the heating pipes and had started 



Are noted for coal economy acd 

 food reanlts (generally 



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a small fire in the boiler. Suddenly ther^' 

 was a tremendous explosion that wreckel 

 the boiler-house. Burch was on the se^^^ 

 ond floor, and when the flooring gav' 



