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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



September 8, 1010. 



WBITK TO 



GEO. B. LIMBERT & CO. 



5S7 fulton SL, CHICAGO 



—For Prices on— 



fieooJDe 

 Wronsht Iron Pipe 



Aak Tor Cataloara*. 



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Ford ft Kendig Co. 



"Spellerized" Wrought Pips 



Kspeoially adapted for GreenliouBe Work 



Flttinest Valves, Tools, Etc. 

 1428-30-32 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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(ireenhoase Deatiog. 



PATCHINQ A BOILEB. 



There is a broken section in my 

 boiler and I shall appreciate any ad- 

 vice that you can give me on the mat- 

 ter. The boiler is for steam. It is 

 of the sectional kind and is broken 

 through the flues in the middle. I have 

 used various patent cements without 

 avail. Is there any possible way of 

 repairing it? T, M. S. 



A good deal will depend upon the 

 nature of the crack, but as a patch at 

 the best is not likely to be very sat- 

 isfactory, the putting in of a new sec- 

 tion will probably be advisable. In 

 some cases it is possible to cover the 

 crack with a patch of steel plate, held 

 in place by means of set screws tapped 

 into the section so as to draw the crack 

 together, or at least prevent further 

 cracking. Before doing this the crack 

 itself should be filled with litharge, and 

 a thin sheet of asbestos or other water- 

 proof packing should be placed under 

 the patch. 



WITH THE FUEL MEN. 



Discussing the situation of the coal 

 trade, the Continental and Commercial 

 National Bank, Chicago, in its fall book 

 on business conditions, quotes a mem- 

 ber of the trade as follows: 



"Our business is largely in bitumin- 

 ous coal and the entire year has been an 

 exceptionally bad one for the trade. 

 As winter came on in 1909 a conges- 

 tion of traffic placed the great handi- 

 cap upon shipments, and as our busi- 

 ness, besides being local, reaches to the 

 west and northwest, even beyond the 

 Missouri river, the congested condition 

 of traffic on the roads reaching into 

 that region was a severe handicap. It 

 often required through the entire win- 

 ter up to March, 1910, six weeks to 

 get a car of coal from Chicago to the 

 Missouri river points. The railroad 

 companies issued frantic circulars dur- 

 ing the summer months to the trade to 

 provide itself with coal while they had 

 the cars and the motive power to han- 

 flle it. The advice was good, but they 



That Burnham and Its Workings. 



Many boilers are built a good deal on the 

 tea kettle plan, and use only such heat as 

 comes in direct contact with the surfaces 

 immediately over the Are— the rest of the 

 heat shoots out the (-himney in dollar 

 bunches. 



The Burham has the tea kettle and other 

 forms of Cast Iron Greenhouse Boilers "beaten 

 to a stand still." In the first place, the Burn- 

 ham surfaces directly over the hottest part of 

 the fire are not flat like the kettle, but made in 

 a series of deep waterways with fire channels 



on each side, makintr more than three times 

 as much surface for the heat to strike. 



Then after leaving the channels, the hot 

 gases pass up the side flue openings and 

 travel back and forth three times between 

 still more waterways that grab practically all 

 the available heat that is left. 



Such a boiler squeezes every available bit 

 of heat out of every pound of coal burned. 

 Where is there another such greenhouse 

 boiler? Send for prices. 



Lord and Burnham Company 



IRVINGTON, N. Y. 



New York 

 St. James Bids:. 



Boston Philadelphia 



Tremont Bide. Heed Bide. 



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Chloa8X> 

 The Rookery 



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to read our •• Trap Book." It throws new light on 

 an interesting and important subject. 



MOREHEAD 

 STEAM TRAPS 



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 making your steam lines more effective, save on fuel, 

 water and labor - and grow better stock write for the 

 Florists' "Trap Book" at once. 



Don't delay. The information will cost you 

 notliing and will pay you well. 



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