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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 18, 1009. 



The Standard 

 of Excellence 



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'Pocahontas" 

 ^smokeless, 



A Symbol of 

 Qualify 



Our registered Trade-Mark covering THE CELEBRATED C. C. B. POCAHONTAS SMOKELESS COAL 



correspoDos to the Sterling Stamp on silver, as the United States Geological Survey has made it The Standard for 

 grading all Steam Fuel. 



C. C. B. POCAHONTAS SMOKELESS 



Is the only American Coal that has been officially indorsed bvthe Governments of Great Britain, Gtermany 

 and Austria and is the favorite fuel with the United States Navy, which has u^ed it almost exclusively 

 for many years. Uneqnaled for tbe Generation of Steam and Donaestic Pnrposes. 



CASTNER, CURRAN ft BULLITT, Sole Agents 



POCAHONTAS 



TRAD! HARK MOISTIIIID 



Branch Offices 



1 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. 

 Citizen's Bank Building. Norfolk, Va. 

 Old Colony Building, Chicago. 111. 

 60 Congress Street, Boston, Mass. 



C. C. B. Pocahontas Smokeless Coal Branch Offices 



Main Offica- Arcade Bldo. Neave Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



mam umce . "V;""" ^'^B- Strickland Building. Roanoke, Va. 



1 South 15th Street, European Agts.- Hull, Blyth& Company, 

 Philadelphia, Penniylvania 4 Fenchurch Ave., London, E. C, Eng. 



Mention Tiie Keview wbt-u you write 



fireenhoose Heating. 



THE COAL MARKET. 



Tlip fuel industry has been in a de- 

 pressed state all winter, and greenhouse 

 owners have, as a rule, bought their coal 

 cheaper this season than for several 

 years. It is worthy of consideration 

 that the production of bituminous coal 

 in this country is practically a million 

 tons for each working day, while the pro- 

 duction of anthracite is about a million 

 tons for each Sunday of the year; in 

 other words, six times as much soft coal 

 is mined as is produced in the hard coal 

 district. 



In both fields the overproduction this 

 year has been large. In the soft coal 

 inarket there is no prospect of any im- 

 mediate advance in prices; it appears 

 that the approaching summer will be one 

 of the dullest in the history of the soft 

 coal industry, and prices will be low, 

 particularly on the cheaper grades. The 

 higher grades of bituminous" coal are 

 coming into more general use all the 

 time, and more rapidly than ever since 

 prices have been low, and the higher the 

 grade of the coal the better it is likely 

 to maintain its market and its price this 

 (Summer. 



The hard coal miners are just now ne- 

 gotiating with the mine operators for a 

 renewal of the labor contract, and deal- 

 ers and consumers are taking the pre- 

 caution of putting in stock to insure 

 themselves against the unlikelihood of a 

 labor war. But even if a strike should 

 be called, of which there is only remote 

 prospect^^tihe price of hard coal could 

 -not soar, because of the large stocks 

 which have accumulated. 



GREENHOUSE AND STORE. 



We are about to build a greenhouse at 

 the back of our store. It will be twenty- 

 four feet nine inches wide, seventy-five 

 feet long and eight feet to the gutter. 

 The floor of the greenhouse will be three 

 feet higher than the store floor, and the 

 basement will be four feet below the 

 store floor. Which heating system would 

 you recommend — steam or hot water? 

 We would prefer hot water, as it does 

 not need so nmch care. W6 wish to 

 heat both store and greenhouse. The 

 w^&ther here, in eastern Minnesota, gets 

 30 degrees below zero, and in many win- 

 ters still lower. W^e want 60 degrees of 

 heat. 



Kindly give us a plan of piping and 



"DETROIT 



A Positive Factor 



J> Automatic Return 



Steam Traps 



.JfE^nomy Fof Stcam Heated Greenhouses 



**Detroit** Traps will keep entire system free from water at all times, making 

 every foot of heating surface hot and efficient, returning automatically all water of 



condensation directly into the boiler — hot — 

 and without a pump or injector. 



A great coal saver. 



An economical boiler feeder. 



Worth double the price. 



Asli Mr. Geo. Reinberg, flo- 

 rist, Chicago, 111. He has 

 used other malces, also. 



Write us size of boiler and number of square feet of glass in your greenhouse. 

 It will pay you. 



Dept. F. R. Detroit, Mich 



Mention Ttie Review when you write. 



state what boiler would give the best 

 satisfaction. Our store is sixty-five feet 

 long, and we intend to put the boiler in 

 the basement at the back of the store, 

 four feet below the store floor and right 

 where the greenhouse starts. That will 

 put the boiler between the two buildings, 

 so that the piping will be sixty-five feot 

 in the store and seventy-five feet in the 

 greenhouse. We want a heating system 

 that we will not have to crowd in cold 

 weather. E. B. 



Under your environment 1 would not 

 advise using a boiler rated at less than 

 2,500 square feet of radiation. The 

 greenhouse will require nearly 1,000 feet, 

 and the store almost as much more. If 

 the greenhouse is piped with eighteen 2- 

 inch pipes it should prqvide the tempera- 

 ture desired with hot water, which under 

 vour conditions will prove best, without 

 doubt. There are many makes of boiler 

 that would prove satisfactory. We can- 

 not say that any particular style is best 

 under these conditions, since there arc so 

 many that would answer. I would ad- 

 vise you to write to the advertisers in 



SMITH, UNEAWEAVER & CO. 



COAL 



ABthrMit«, BitaninoQi. Coke uid 6m Co*1 



Philadelphia 



Wert End 

 Tmrt BalldiiiK. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



the Review, study their catalogues, and 

 make your own choice. L. C. C. 



STEAM FOR COMPLETE RANGE. 



My greenhouses are located in the 

 southern part of British Columbia. They 

 run east and west, facing the public 

 street on the north and east and running 

 back to a back street or alley c»n the 

 west. Between the west end of the main 

 houses and the back street, howev.-r, is a 

 shed, extending north and south. At the 

 northeast corner of the grountls is the 

 dwelling house. West of the dwelling 

 house, at the northwest corner i)f the 

 range, are three short houses. Xn. 1^ 



