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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



March 24, 1910. 



600 square feet of radiation will be re- 

 quired. With plants of a large size it is 

 customary to estimate that each horse- 

 power of boiler capacity will heat 175 

 square feet of radiation, and, according 

 to these figures, the ten horse-power boil- 

 er would be of about the right size. Since 

 the amount of radiation is small, how- 

 ever, it will be safer to use one horse- 

 power for 150 square feet of radiation. 



If the heating coil for the other house 

 is made from 1^-inch pipe, it would an- 

 swer better than to put in a grate coil. 



To heat the houses to 55 degrees, two 

 21^ -inch flow pipes and nine 2-ineh re- 

 turns should be used. If the returns are 

 well above the top of the heater, it will 

 answer if the flows are carried on the 

 walls at the plates. Part of the returns 

 should be under the benches. 



A COIL BOILER. 



I am building two connected green- 

 houses, each 20x100 feet. The tempera- 

 ture in this part of Oregon seldom goes 

 as low as 20 degrees above zero. I am 

 using a hot water system. 'Will eight 2- 

 inch pipes — four in each house — with a 

 2% -inch overhead flow, give enough heat? 

 Is a coil of pipes set. in brick satisfactory 

 for a boiler, and what size of pipes should 

 the coil be made of? H. A.' N. 



The question does not state what tem- 

 perature is desired in the houses. If 50 

 degrees will be suAcient, it will answer 

 to use one 2 V^ -inch flow and ten 2-inch 

 returns — five in each house. If a tempera- 

 ture ai 60 ^egre?*'.is desired, two 2^/2-, 

 inch flows and twelve 2-inch returns — six 

 in each house — should be used. 



The coil boilers do not last nearly as 

 long as those of cast iron, but they are 

 cheaply constructed and are quite ef- 

 ficient. If built of iVo -inch pipe, they 

 will do good work and will last longer 

 than when a smaller pipe is used. 



RICHMOND, VA. 



W. A. Hammond has sold his green- 

 house plant to the Hammond Company 

 (Inc.), which will conduct the florist 

 business, and the adjoining real estate 

 to the Suburban Development Corpora- 

 tion, which will cut up its section into 

 lots for residential purposes. The en- 

 tire tract contains about forty-two acres, 

 and the price paid by the two compa- 

 nies was $90,000. Although the deals 

 were made at the same time, the pur- 

 chasing concerns are separate and dis- 

 tinct. Mr. Hammond retains his resi- 

 dence adjoining the property on Sher- 

 wood avenue. 



The western portion of the tract, con- 

 taining about twenty acres, and includ- 

 ing the greenhouses, went to the Ham- 

 mond Company at approximately $68,000. 

 This company was recently incorporated 

 for the purpose of acquiring this property 

 and the business. J. Scott Parrish is 

 president; H. A. Higason, vice-president, 

 and F. F. Apt, secretary. The business 

 will be carried on in the same way, and 

 many of those now connected with it are 

 men who were associated with Mr. Ham- 

 mond. 



The eastern portion of the property, 

 containing twenty-two acres, brought 

 $22,000. Its purchaser, the Suburban 

 Development Corporation, which was or- 

 ganized for the purpose, will at once be- 

 gin the work of development and di- 

 viding the land into lots to conform with 

 the plan of Ginter Park. 



Officers of the company are: Presi- 



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 and treasurer, James B. McComb; sec- 

 retary, Irving E. Campbell. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Trade last week was good in all lines 

 and the wholesalers report that stock 

 sold well, except roses. In these, the 

 market is at present overstocked, but car- 

 nations were selling almost clean the 

 last of the week; Jfhe mild and pleasant 

 weather all of last week, which bids fair 



to continue this week, had a most pleas- 

 ing effect on the retail trade. There 

 was nothing rushing, but the trade was 

 quite steady, and there was a large 

 amount of funeral work which used up 

 considerable white stock. White carna- 

 tions went up to 4 cents and 5 cents 

 Thursday, to be used for dyeing green 

 for St. Patrick's day, and, from reports, 

 they sold as well as last year. It looks 

 as though carnations will be off crop 

 for Easter. 



Eoses are coming in quite heavily and 

 considerable of the colored stock was left 



