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The Florists' Review 



Febeuaev 6, 1913. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 editor of the Heating Department, de- 

 scribing their troubles or asking any 

 questions regarding the heating of green- 

 houses, the piping or boiler-room. But 

 please do not ask us to make a choice of 

 apparatus for you. Each boiler adver- 

 tised in The Eeview is a good boiler, and 

 the advertisers sell them on their merits. 



BOILEB ACBOSS ALLEY. 



Enclosed you will find a sketch of our 

 present houses and one proposed house, 

 located across a 16-foot alley. Our pres- 

 ent houses are each 18x75 and are 

 heated by a fifteen horse-power marine 

 boiler. The heating system works 

 finely. The flows rise six feet from 

 the boiler and then branch off for the 

 21^-inch flows. If we place a boiler in 

 a pit six feet deep, can we faring 

 the pipe across the alley and connect 

 it to the present system? If so, we 

 expect to move the present boiler into 

 the new pit and use another boiler to 

 run both plants. Kindly tell us how 

 it can be done with best results. The 

 flow pipe must be at least under the 

 surface of the alley, to allow driving 

 over. How many 2-inch pipes will be 

 needed for the new house, to maintain 

 a temperature of 50 degrees in this Ohio 

 climate? There are ground benches. 

 How many 214-inch flows will be 

 needed? •' C. B. 



The sketch shows three houses, each 

 18x75 feet. Each house has two 2'%- 

 inch flow pipes, with nine 2-inch re- 

 turns in two of the houses, which are 

 heated to 50 degrees for carnations, and 

 eleven returns in the rose house, which 

 is kept at 60 degrees. There should 

 be no trouble about heating the houses 

 with the boiler across the alley. 



The new house is 21x145 feet and 

 is to be heated to 50 degrees. This 

 house has three feet of glass in the 

 north wall and four feet in the south 

 wall. To heat this house will require 

 about 1,200 square feet of radiation. 

 This will be provided if three 2^^- 

 inch flows and nine 2-inch returns are 

 used. Carry one flow under the ridge 

 and the others on the plates. Place 

 a coil of three returns on each wall 

 and distribute the other return pipes 

 in the walks. 



THE FUEL MABKET. 



According to one of the authorities in 

 the coal trade, at the close of January 

 scarcely a trace remained of the anthra- 



The larsest Vegetable Range In the South-nearly 100,000 sq. ft. sflasR, heated by 

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cite shortage which was causing such 

 consternation in trade circles back in 

 the fall and early winter. The change 

 which has taken place in the status of 

 the hard coal industry in recent weeks 

 is no less than amazing, feverish anxiety 

 to obtain tonnage at almost any price 

 having given way to indifference and, 

 in many cases, to inability to take in 

 any more coal, owing to the fiUed-up con- 

 dition of storage places. The trans- 

 formation has been wrought solely by 

 falling off in consumption, production 

 since early fall having remained prac- 

 tically on a par with the season of 

 1911-1912. 



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The bituminous market has become 

 more ' ' spotty ' ' and irregular, though in 

 the main prices are holding up pretty 

 well considering the light demand for 

 spot coal, which is a feature of the pres- 

 ent situation. Against this inactivity 



