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February 5, 1914. 



high to the gutters, with a board wall 

 on the entire west side, where I intend 

 to build another house in the near 

 future. It is fourteen feet high to the 

 ridge, with two and one-half feet of 

 concrete in the ends and glass in the 

 upper part. 



On the east side is a lean-to, eight 

 feet wide, which I want to separate 

 from the main house by a'partition of 

 either canvas or tar paper, so it can be 

 easily removed. I want to maintain a 

 temperature of 70 degrees in the lean- 

 to, for cucumbers and propagating. 

 There is a 2-foot concrete wall, with 

 three feet of glass, on the east side of 

 the lean-to. There will be a bench 

 three and one-half feet wide along the 

 entire front; all the rest of the space 

 will be occupied by solid beds for 

 cucumbers and tomatoes, to be followed 

 by mums, so most of the pipes will have 

 to be on the iron posts under the gut- 

 ters. There is a row of supports under 

 the ridge and I can either place the 

 flow pipe there or put one under each 

 gutter. Can it be a continuous flow or 

 should the return be cut into two sec- 

 tions? 



The boiler is at the northwest corner 

 of the houses. The top of the boiler is 

 eighteen inches below the level of the 

 ground and the flow pipe rises directly 

 into the house. Will the boiler men- 

 tioned be able to take care of a carna- 

 tion house 30x160, besides the present 

 houses? A. I. A. 



To heat a greenhouse 22x175 feet to 

 60 degrees, when the outside tempera- 

 ture is 15 degrees above zero, will re- 

 quire one 214-inch overhead flow pipe 

 and six l^/i-inch returns, using steam. 

 One of the returns, at least, should be 

 placed on each of the side walls and 

 the others may be distributed beside the 

 walks- 



While canvas or rosin-sized building 

 paper may be used for the partition, it 

 would be a great mistake to use tar 

 paper, as it would have an injurious 

 effect upon the plants. In the lean-to 

 house use one 2-inch flow pipe and three 

 1^/4 -inch returns. Run the flow pipe on 

 the partition and the returns under the 

 propagating bed. This part of the 

 houfft appears, from the description, to 

 be 175 feet long, with three feet of 

 glass in the wall and about nine feet in 

 the lean-to roof. Arranged as sug- 

 gested, the coils may run the entire 

 length of the house. 



The proposed carnation house is to be 

 30x160 feet and will require one 214- 

 inch flow pipe and seven 114-inch re- 

 turns. 



As nearly as can be estimated from 

 the data furnished, about 1,500 square 

 feet of steam radiation will be required 

 to heat the three houses, and for eco- 

 nomical firing a boiler with a rating of 

 2,000 square feet should be used. 



Loveland, Colo. — N. E. De Golier has 

 sold his florists' business at 863 Cleve- 

 land avenue, to a new local firm known 

 as Bobbins & Sons. Mr. De Golier will 

 spend the rest of the winter in Cali- 

 fornia. 



Albany, N. Y. — The joint horticul- 

 tural commission appointed by the va- 

 rious trade organizations of the state 

 met here January 23 to discuss an ap- 

 propriation of $300,000 for a new hor- 

 ticultural building at the state fair 

 grounds at Syracuse. G. A. Bates, of 

 Syracuse, is chairman of the organiza- 

 tion. 



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