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The Florists' Review 



Apbil 2, 1914. 



WILKS 



Hot Water Boilers 



ARE THE MOST ECONOMICAl 

 BOILERS rOR GREENHOUSES 



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SELF-FEEDING 

 HOT WATER BOILERS 



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S. WILKS MFG. CO. 



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EMERGENCY PIPE CLAMPS 



Stop any split 

 or rust hole leak 

 —permanently. 

 M. B. Skinner 

 & Co. 



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 CHICAaO, ILLINOIS 



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with the correspoinling pipe on the 

 other boiler, without disturbing the 

 supply mains leading to the different 

 houses. 



Another way would be to connect the 

 flows and the returns on each boiler 

 with 6-inoh pipes, and connect all of 

 the supply flow pipes to one of these 

 and the returns to the other. If more 

 than ;5,000 square feet of radiation is 

 required to heat the five houses, it 

 would be well to use either 7-inch or 

 8-inch pipes. 



PIPING IN NEW YORK STATE. 



I am about to erect a greenhouse 

 and sliould like to get an idea as to 

 Avhich would be the best way to builil 

 it, with reference to the points of the 

 compass. The land, as you will see 

 from the enclosed diagram, runs at a 

 peculiar angle, extending from north- 

 east to southwest. I intend to grow 

 carnations and will have to run the 

 house either from northwest to south- 

 east or from northeast to southwest. 



The house will be 25x100, of the 

 ridge and furrow style. It will be 

 seven feet high to the eaves and the 

 gables will be three feet ten inches 

 high from the top of the gutters. The 

 side ventilators will be four feet six 

 inches. In all, there will be 4,200 square 

 feet of glass. There will be two side 

 benches, each three feet wide, and two 

 middle benches, each six feet six inches 

 wide, with three walks, each two feet 

 wide. The gutters will be supported 

 by iron posts. The ground is unusually 

 springy and the boiler can only be 

 placed three feet deep, so I shall use 

 overhead risers to supply the coils 

 under the benches. Will 2-inch risers 

 do or would it be better to have 3-inch 

 risers! How many feet of 2-inch pipe 

 will be required to heat the house? 

 How large a boiler will be needed? 

 How deep will it be necessary to set 

 the side posts, which will be 2-inch, 

 and the center posts, which will be 

 3-inch? What circumference of con- 

 crete will the posts require? My plans 

 show a circumference of twenty-eight 

 inches, but I think that is more than 

 is necessary. How much pitch is 

 needed for a 100-foot house? Is one- 

 eighth of an inch enough per foot? 



J. F. G. & C. 



WHICH SHALL IT BE? 



CAST IRON BOILERS- FOOL ECONOMY (false ratings, fuel waste, dan- 

 gler of breakdowns by cracking of sections, dealers' commissions on sales)— OR 



KR0E8CHELL BOILERS-FUEL ECONOMY (honest and "true blue" 

 boiler ratings, safety, quick heat, factory-to-user prices). 



Kroeschell Replaces 4 Cast Iron Boilers 



Previous to 1909, Mr. Schultz, of Menominee, Mich., heated his entire plant with 

 cast Iron boilers. It had been claimed that cast iron boilers are superior to the 

 Kroeschell. Mr. Schultz is now heating 18,000 sq. ft. of glass with the Kroeschell 

 which was installed in 1909, and they are required to fire same only twice a night. 

 The following letter speaks for itself: 



"We do not have the least trouble to maintain about 00 degrees in the coldest 

 weather. Your Kroeschell Boiler is the 1 est 1 ever had. Before I heard about your 

 boiler I had four cast iron boilers, and I would not part with the Kroeschell for a 

 hundred cast iron boilers now." (Signed) CHARLES SCHULTZ. 



July 21, 1913, Menominee, Midi. 



Kroeschell Replaces 2 Cast Iron Boilers 



The Marysville Floral Co., of MarysviUe, O., installed a No. 4 

 Kroeschell Boiler in 190.'>. Previous to this time they used cast iron 

 boilers. The following letter speaks for itself: 



"Has the Kroeschell given entire satisfaction? Yes! We had 

 t«o cast Iron boilers, but yours proved by far the l:est. Your boiler 

 has already outlasted the two cast iron boilers by tlve years, and all 

 the expense tttat we liave been put to was a smoke dome." 



(Signed) MARYSVILLE FLORAL CO. 



July 21, 1913, Marysville, O. 



Kroeschell Replaces Cast Iron Boilers 



The range of C. Peterson & .Son, at Kscanaba, Mich., was formerly heated by cast 

 iron boilers. Last season this firm installed their first Kroeschell, a No. G, which is 

 now heating 13,000 to 14,000 sq. ft. of glass. They state that they flre these boilers 

 three to four times during the night in zero weather. Under date of June 28, 1913, 

 they write as follows: 



"The Kroeschell Boiler has given better satisfaction than any other boiler we have 

 ever had. For years we have Hred nuin.v different boilers, and really never could get 

 one that we might say was entirely t*atihfa<tor>- — there was always something wrong — 

 but now, since we have tried the Kroeschell, we have solved our boiler proposition. We 



have a ( ) cast iron sectional boiler here, only used two years, and we wish we 



could get rid of it and put in another Kroeschell in its place." 



Escanala, Mich., June 28. 1913. (Signed) C. PlSTERSOX & SON. 



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The house can run in either of the 



