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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Afbil 28, 1910. 



SMITH, LINEAWEAVER & GO. 



COAL 



ABthraelto. Bltamlaoot, Coke Md 6ai C««l 



TrSti&SSLg. Philadelphia 



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This is the time to plan the changes 

 to be made in your heating apparatus 

 for next season. Figure it out now, be- 

 fore the fires go out; then you will be 

 ready to go ahead during the summer. 

 The Eeview will be glad to answer 

 in this column all inquiries regarding 

 heating. Give all the detaUs of your 

 problem and sign full name and address, 

 though the latter will not be used. 



CAPAQTY OF BOILER. 



We would like to know the heating 

 capacity of a tubular boiler twelve feet 

 long and forty-two inches in diameter, 

 with thirty-six 31/2 -inch flues and a grate 

 48x48. "Will such a boiler, properly fired, 

 heat economically 18,000 feet of glass to 

 the ordinary temperatures for general 

 greenhouse needs, in the latitude of St. 

 Louis? C. H. W. 



Your boiler would be rated at about 

 thirty horse-power and should be able to 

 carry about 3,500 square feet of radia- 

 tion under ordinary greenhouse condi- 

 tions in your climate. F. E. 



YOKING BOILERS. 



We added another boiler to our regular 

 one, but have not been able to yoke the 

 two together in such a way as to get good 

 service from them, as one boiler forces 

 its water into the other. Can you offer 

 any suggestions as to what will remove 

 the trouble? C. L. 



This is evidently a case of one boiler 

 heating much more rapidly than the other. 

 We judge, from what you say, that these 

 are steam boilers, although there is no 

 statement to that effect. If steam boilers 

 are in question, a good way will be to 

 yoke the flow pipes together and to con- 

 nect both with a common water leg into 

 which all returns empty. The water leg 

 should then be connected with each boil- 

 er by an independent connection in which 

 a gate valve and a swing check valve are 

 placed, so as to shut the boiler off en- 

 tirely when not in use and to prevent the 

 water from leaving the boiler when the 

 two are not steaming alike. F. E. 



STEAM FOR RANGE. 



I have seven parallel houses, parti- 

 tioned. Six houses are each 27x100, four 

 for carnations and two for roses. The 

 other house is 10x100. The location is 

 the latitude of Indianapolis. The large 

 houses each have four 5-foot benches, 

 with three 1%-inch flows overhead, eight 

 1^4 -inch returns, and one 1%-inch return, 

 with valves on each one. Is this suflBcient? 



H. O. 



In heating this range of houses with 

 steam, I would suggest the use of nine 

 lines of 1^4 -inch pipe in the 10-foot 

 bouse, for a temperature of 65 to 70 de- 

 grees. Twenty-two lines of 1^-inch 



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Florist Peter Crowe, Rose Place, Utlca, N. V., voluntarily writes:— 



" I am very much pleased to let you know that the Damper Regulator I bought from you 

 last fall is by far the best apparatus for greenhouse purposes. 1 had my book-keeper compare 

 my coal bill of last with that of this year and I And a saving of one quarter the amount of 

 this year's coal over last year's ; also the past winter was a great deal colder and longer than 

 the winter before. 



" There is another very good feature about the Damper Regulator, as It keeps a uniform 

 heat in all the houses at all times by putting on and shutting olT pipes. And I find that my 

 Roses and Ferns did far better this winter than any winter so far, as the temperature was so 

 uniform at all times. 



" My reason for writing you is to let you know, and also to thank you for bringing my 

 attention to the Regulator, and I assure you I cannot speak too highly of this machine." 



Are not facts like these worth an 

 investigation? 



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pipe will be needed in each of the 27- 

 foot houses to be used as rose houses, in 

 which a temperature of from 65 to 70 

 degrees will be required. In the 27-foot 

 houses to be used for carnations, the in- 

 stallation of fourteen l^i-inch pipes will 

 be sufficient. A 2-inch main flow will be 

 sufficient for the 10-foot house; a 3-inch 

 main should be used for each of the rose 

 houses and a 2% inch main in the others, 

 in feach case to be carried under the gable. 



F. R. 



ROCHESTER, IND. 



The Northern Indiana Florists' Asso- 

 ciation assembled in convention at the 

 Commercial Club assembly room, in this 

 city, Wednesday, April 20. The presi- 

 dent, W. W. Dederick, of Warsaw, and 

 the secretary, J. H. Shelton, of this city, 

 were in attendance. Among the others 



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present were: Stuart & Haugh, Ander- 

 son; D. C. Noble, Columbia City; W. 

 Kinyon, South Bend; L. A. Isenbarger, 

 Winona Lake; G. W, Pastor, Hunting- 

 ton; G. W, Stumpner, Argos; C. C. 

 Arnold, North Judson; Harry White, 

 North Manchester, and W. S. Kireher, of 

 this city. 



The meeting was opened by an address 

 of welcome by Mayor O. B. Smith, after 

 which there were sliort speeches by dif- 

 ferent members of the association. At 

 one o'clock the visitors adjourned to the 



