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The Florists' Review 



Febrijakv 5, 1914. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



WANTS MORE INFORMATION. 



Your valued reply to my former 

 questions, in The Review of January 8, 

 under the title of ''Piping a New Jer- 

 sey Kange," has been noted and I am 

 greatly obliged to you. My range of 

 greenhouses, as I stated in my first 

 letter, consists of one detached house, 

 20x112, and seven connected houses, 

 which cover a total area of 100x100 

 square feet. The detached house runs 

 in the same direction as the others and 

 would be a continuation, lengthwise, 

 of the outside house of the solid part 

 of the range, if not separated by the 

 few feet of open space. The two boil- 

 ers, only one of which is ordinarily 

 used, are situated at one side of the 

 connected houses and a short distance 

 from the end of the detached house. 

 A 314-inch flow pipe enters the house 

 next to the boiler room, and, after run- 

 ning through the house to the farther 

 end, turns and runs across the ends of 

 the other houses, so as to connect with 

 the radiation in each house. 



I stated, also, that the larger boiler 

 has one 3V:!-inch tap for the flow and 

 one 3-inch tap for the return. I find, 

 however, that there are two 3i/^-ineh 

 flow openings in this boiler. In this 

 case, how would you suggest that I 

 run the pipes, for an open-tank system? 

 What would you suggest, also, as a 

 piping system for the connected houses, 

 if you were to design the whole sys- 

 tem, with no restrictions except the lo- 

 cation of the boiler house and using 

 such sizes of mains as you think would 

 give the best service? In the house 

 20x112, would it be advisable to run 

 two 21^-inch flow pipes from one 2il.- 

 inch main from the boiler? 



I have just built a sash extension to 

 the detached house. It is in the form 

 of a lean-to and the distance from its 

 outside wall to the eave plate of the 

 greenhouse is forty-four inches. Can 

 I heat this lean-to with a return pipe 

 under the bench? I expect to use it 

 for the propagation of chrysanthemums. 



H. J. R. 



If the boiler has two 3 ^^ -inch flow 

 ports, I would run one SV^-inch flow 



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pipe to supply the radiation in the 

 four houses nearest the boiler and use 

 the other pipe to supply the three other 

 houses. For an open tank system use 

 five 2-inch pipes in each of the houses, 

 except the outer ones. Six pipes should 

 be used in the farthest house and three 

 or four in the other outside house, 

 through which the two S^^-inch main 

 flows will pass. Two 3 ^^ -inch returns 

 should be used to connect the pipes in 



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