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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



S£irr£MB£u 29, 1910. < 



FLORISTS' rUEL DIRECTOIIY 



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TAYLOR SPRINGS COj^L 



THE COAL or MERIT 



Non-CIkikering:^ Sootless and Free Burning 



CANTINE 



Washed or Unwashed 



Mine I — Taylor SpfSngi, III. 

 ^ 2— CantincIIL 



BLACK BRIER 

 Carterville Coal 



Mine 3 — Gmtine, III* 

 ^ 4— Johniton City, DL 



TBMWUtM FLORIST WIIiL ORDKR NOW. Writ* or Wire today lor Prieea F. O. B. yonr d^. 



Montgomery County Coal Co., Chicago 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



NATURAL OAS FOB FUEL. 



In Th^ Review of September 22, E. C, 

 of Illinois, asks for advice on using 

 natural gas for greenhouse heating. 

 Here, in Indiana, twenty-five wells do 

 not supply a town of 2,000, though a 

 pumping station is used to force it into 

 the town. If the wells he speaks of 

 have no" water in them, and if there 

 are not too many people to be supplied, 

 probably he would not be troubled with 

 the gas giving out in winter. 



A well with eighty pounds of pres- 

 sure is considered good here, but there 

 are few found that have a pressure of 

 over forty pounds. Several times last 

 winter I had to get up at midnight, go 

 to the regulator, shovel away a snow- 

 drift and ponr- hot water for an hour, 

 and then I sometimes went back to bed 

 with the gas still out of our stoves. 



Gas is furnished to me free of charge, 

 and yet I will not uso it hereafter in 

 the greenhouse. Unless the wells are 

 strong and dry, E. C. would bettor use 

 coal if he is looking for satisfaction. 



Russell Fort. 



CAB SHOBTAOE HAS COME. 



A serious shortage in soft coal con- 

 fronts the west — Chicago in particular 

 — according to wholesale coal dealers, 

 as a result of the coal strike that ended 

 recently. There is only a five days' 

 supply in Chicago at the present • time, 

 according to Frank S. Peabody, of the 

 Peabody Coal Co. "This margin of 

 supply is not liable to be increased be- 

 yond that point for some time," he 

 said. 



William O'Rourke, president of the 

 General Collieries Co., thinks the car 

 situation will be bad on account of the 

 fact that much of the coal being shipped 

 from Illinois has gone to the northwest 

 and it will take some time to get the 

 cars back. "Just at the critical tinie, " 



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be said, "the cars will be scattered 

 around the country. Everybody remem- 

 bers the trouble we had last winter un- 

 der normal conditions. If we have an 

 early winter the sitnatron wi4I be that 

 much worse." 



What the actual shortage will be is 

 merely guesswork and none of the deal- 

 ers interviewed would express an opin- 

 ion as to the amoaat. . " It will largely 

 depend on what the railroads do in the 

 way of furnishing cars to the mines,'' 

 said T. J. Hudson, Jr., manager of the 

 Southern Illinois Coal Co., when asked 

 as to the probability of a coal famine. 

 "The strike has delayed us six months 

 and it will be hard to overcome this 

 handicap. Most of the mines will be 

 operated all winter, according to pres- 

 ent plans, but if the railroads do not 

 supply cars this will not relieve the 

 sitiiation. " 



COAL. 



We are indebted to Smith, Linea- 

 weaver & Co., Philadelphia, for the 

 following report on the coal situation in 

 the east: 



"On steam sizes of anthracite coal 

 the market is quite active, the demand 

 having increased materially during Sep- 

 tember. It will not be long until heat 



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will be required for office buildings and 

 factories, which will increase the de- 

 mand to a greater extent; the question 

 of the lighting plants and large office 

 buildings is also one to be taken into 

 consideration on account of the days be- 

 coming rapidly shorter. The return of 

 householders has largely increased the 

 demand for domestic sizes. 



"In bituminous coal prices and de- 

 mand have been unquestionably better 

 this month. The high grade bituminous 

 coals have been going forward in fair 

 volume throughout the summer, but a 

 heavier tonnage is now moving. Those 

 who are under contract are calling on 

 their people for practically full ship- 

 ments, and the demand other than that, 

 which is to say for current orders, has 

 increased largely. The price for the 

 lower grades of bituminous coal ia also 

 slightly in advance of what it has been 



