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The Florists' Review 



Apeil 16, 1914. 



WILKS 



Hot Water Boilers 



ARC THE MOSTtCONOMICAL 

 BOIURS rOR GREtNHOUSES 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard 

 to any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Review to make a choice of 

 apparatus for you. The greenhouse 

 heating equipment advertised in this 

 paper is, we believe, the best for the 

 trade to buy, and each article the best 

 in the special field of its adaptation. 



TROUBLESOME AIB VAIiVES. 



My greenhouses are heated with 

 steam. The air valves in the return 

 pipes are about six feet or more lower 

 than the flow pipe and I could easily 

 connect the returns with the flows 

 with a i^-inch pipe. Would that do 

 away with the air valves, which are 

 troublesome f I have seen such a plan 

 carried out with hot water, but will it 

 do for steam f G. O. K. 



For use with steam, the air valves 

 must be placed near the lower ends of 

 the coils, so that the air will be able to 

 escape before the steam reaches the 

 valves and closes them automatically, 

 thus preventing the further escape of 

 the air. If the returns were connected 

 with the flow mains, it would be neces- 

 sary to have air valves on the flow 

 pipes and these would be closed by the 

 heat of the steam, thus preventing the 

 escape of the air. I do not know of 

 any practical way of connecting the 

 flows and returns by which the use of 

 air valves can be done away with. 

 Cheap air valves are an abomination, 

 but with good valves there should be 

 no diflSculty. 



THE FUEL MASKET. 



The following description of the re- 

 cent rather perplexing situation as re- 

 gards Pocahontas and New River coals 

 at Chicago is from the Black Diamond: 



"Even the smokeless coal market has 

 been enduring rather severe trials for 

 the last week or ten days. The major 

 operators, who are the principal de- 

 pendence of the retail dealers for their 

 supply of high grade coal, have been 

 in the last ten days or two weeks try- 

 ing to place contracts with retail deal- 

 ers for the supply of coal for next 

 year. They have in the meantime en- 

 countered a couple of reactions of the 

 spot market which had a tendency to 

 put a damper upon contracting. This 

 last week, the situation was thrown 

 still further into confusion. Small job- 

 bing companies and one or two selling 

 agencies were disposed to speculate on 

 the market for smokeless as the re- 



ComTOlit On Top! 



Keqp your boiler up on the ground where 

 it is readily accessible for firing and re- 

 pairs. There's a way to save time and 

 money— trouble and expense and still 

 obtain the same drainage facilities. 

 That way ii to install the 



Matehead 



The Morehead System keeps your steam 

 lines dry. hot, increases ihe circulation 

 and assures a perfect drainage. It feeds 

 the condensate directly to your boilers, 

 thereby maintaining the constant tem- 

 perature so necessary in the greenhouse. 

 And it's so simple, too— so sure. Ask for 

 the complete facts. 



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Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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suit of closing down of the mines in the 

 four states comprising the competitive 

 fields. One concern alone shipped in 

 an almost unprecedented amount of con- 

 signment coal and was hit hard. Some 

 other companies and some small job- 

 bers speculated on a lesser scale, but 

 still speculated. The result is that while 

 the major producers are holding firmly 

 at $1.25 for mine run, the market is 

 flooded with that kind of coal at a 

 very much lower price. Within the 

 last week first class mine run coal has 

 sold at $1 a ton as common figure. A 



WHEN YOU BUY-GEf A KROESCHELL 

 " The Boiler of Uaequalcd Fuel Economy " 



Expressions from Hen Who Know 

 Boilers 



Well Knawi ia the Golden West. 



Our No. 2 Kroeschell Is doing fine work 

 and I am well pleased with It. 



G. P". BUTLER, JR., 

 SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



Tke Plant King tf tke West 



I have used Kroeschell Boilers ever 

 since I built my first greenhouse. They 

 have always given me the very best 

 satisfaction and I believe them as good 

 boilers as money can buy. 



F. OECHSLIN, 

 CHICAQO, ILL. 



A Fimovs Illinois Rose Range. 



In speaking of the Kroeschell Boiler as 

 an ^economical greenhouse boiler I cannot 

 say too much. Personally I have had 

 the pleasure or misfortune to Are nearly 

 every make of G. H. Boiler on the mar- 

 ket and I can safely say the Kroeschell 

 is the best of them all. 



CHAS. McCAULEY. 

 RIVERBANK GREB:nHOUSES, 



GENEVA, ILL. 



No More Cist Iron Beilers. 



I have used several different makes of 

 boilers but none I like as well as yours. 



The Kroeschell is easier to fire, takes 

 less coal, and water circulates quicker 

 than any other boiler. 



I have used two difTerent makes of 

 sectional boilers — no more cast iron Iwilers 

 for ui. 



FARMINGTON GREENHOUSE CO., 

 E. H. Steele. Manager. 



Farmlngton, Mich., June 30, 1913. 



A Well Known Carnation Prize Winner. 



The carnation range of Mr. Nic Zwel- 

 fel, of North Milwaukee, consists of 

 nearly 70,000 sq. ft. glass and the water 

 plant is heated by a No. 14 and No. 15 

 Kroeschell Boiler and Kroeschell Gener- 

 ator. The product of the plant Is known 

 throughout the West for Its fine quality. 

 Mr. Z. has nsi'd dlfforent kinds of boilers. 

 As for the Kroeschell, he snys: "I think 

 the Kroeschell Boilers are the Ijest boilers 

 a florist can buy." 



NIC ZWEIFKL. 

 NORTH MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



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