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TTic Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 6, 1909. 



SMITH, LINEAWEAVER & GO. 



COiAL 



AnthrMlte, Bltaminona, Coke and 6u Cokl 



Philadelphia 



West End 

 Trust BulldinKt 



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fireenhonse Heatiog. 



The agreoinoiit botwoen the miners and 

 operators, insuring industrial peaee in 

 the antliracite coal regions for another 

 period of three years, was signed at 

 Philadelphia April 29, by the representa 

 tives of tiie employers and the men. 



Soft coal, including the best grades 

 mined in Illinois and Indiana, is selling 

 at the lowest prices in years. The over- 

 production has been steady for some time 

 and the business has been so unprofitable 

 that many weak concerns have gone out 

 of business. It is an ill wind that blows 

 nobody good, for florists can afford to 

 keep their bunkers full. 



CHARGE FOR HEAT UNITS. 



New principles and theories in the 

 ])roblems of modern heating and the 

 manufacture of heating appliances were 

 advanced by Louis Bruch, of the Ameri- 

 can Radiator Co., in an illustrated lec- 

 ture on "Heating Boilers, Their Ratings 

 and Reliability," before an audience of 

 Chicago architects, contractors and en- 

 gineers in the rooms of the. Western So- 

 ciety of Engineers, April 30. 



' ' In Germany the coal dealers are re 

 quired to state the thermal units, or heat 

 value, of the fuel they offer for sale, ' ' 

 said Mr. Bruch. "But we Americans, 

 who are inclined to laugh at the dear, 

 old paternal German government, are 

 willing to keep on letting the dealers sell 

 US coal just by the ton and with no ref- 

 erence to its heat producing value, and 

 {IS a result they sell the smaller buyers 

 about anything they choose to call coal. 

 It often is said water is a good con- 

 iluctor of heat, but the man who makes 

 Ihe statement without qualification should 

 be placed in jail. Water at rest is a 

 poor conductor of heat, but water in mo- 

 tion is a tremendous heat conductor." 



NECESSITY THE MOTHER. 



Necessity, the mother of invention, is 

 responsible for a great many of the 

 processes employed in greenhouse con- 

 struction, as well as in other fields of 

 endeavor. This is brought to mind by 

 the account of the way in which Henry 

 Stuttle, Batavia, 111., came to devise the 

 (damp he has since patented for the join- 

 ing of second-hand pipe for greenhouse 

 heating. 



Mr. Stuttle was for years in the iron 

 bu.siness, and among the things he was 

 called upon to do was the installation of 

 heating plants for florists. He put in the 

 heating apparatus for quite a number of 

 greenhouse men throughl his section of 

 the country. In one casf, he was called 

 upon to make an estimate of the cost of 

 heating certain houses at Geneva, and, 

 knowing of a lot of second-hand pipe 

 which was available, he took advantage 

 of the opportunity to give his customer 

 a low figure, while still . making a satis- 

 factory profit. The job 'secured and the 

 pipe purchased, be discovered that the 

 pipe could not be threaded, because of 



20 Years in Service 



MOREHEAD 



RETURN STEAM TRAPS 



Have been in use by florists for over 20 

 years. Could a better proof of efficiency and satisfactory 

 service be furnished? 



Tbe floral establishment of Mr. Geo. Reinberg, Chicago, 111., is equipped 



with twenty-four Morebead Traps. Repeat orders. See tbe point ? 



Write for particulars and a 30 day free trial. 



MOREHEAD MFG. GO., I043 Grand River Ave,, Detroit, MiGll. 



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BYERS PIPE 



Valves and 



Jarecki Mfg. Co., Fimn», 

 Buckskin Hose, 



KENNETH ANDERSON NEC. CO. 



33-37 East Atwater Street, DETROIT, MICH. 



Can handle Mlchlean and Northern Indiana orders, only. 



made under our own 

 brand. Sold in any 

 length. 



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Tripp's iron Repair Cement 



A quick repair for leaks in 

 sectional boilers, sand holes 

 in castings, cracks in fire 

 pots, radiators, etc. .'. .'. 



THE ALAN H. TRIPP CO. 



260 South Clark Street, CHICAGO 



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its coixlition. The result was that oithei- 

 some other mefhod of joinin}/ had to be 

 devised, or the ]»rospeftive profit wouM 

 be turned to a loss. 



Being averse to taking a loss, Mr. 

 Stuttle set about making a clamp to join 

 the ends of his pipes. He made his 

 clamp in two sections, uniting them with 

 bolts. A little cement inside the clamp 

 made a perfectly tight joint, and so sue 

 cessful was the job that he went on and 

 made molds for the manufacture of the 

 clamps to fit all sizes of pipes. They are 

 now in uSe in a number of greenhouses 

 at Batavia and elsewhere. With . the 

 damp, old boiler tubes are joined up in 

 a fraction of the time that is required 

 for making the old-fashioned caulked 



EMERGENGY PIPE CLAMPS 



To repair splits 

 and rust holes 

 on pipe. Made 

 of malleable 

 iY-on, and guar- 

 anteed to stop 

 the leaks. 



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 alogue of 

 Pipe Repairs and Steam Specialties 



JAMES McCREA & CO. 



Manufacturers 



61 -63 W. Washington St., CHICAGO 



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joint, and, if circumstances require 

 taking the piping apart again, it may be 

 done without effort and without injury 

 to the clamp. 



IN MICHIGAN. 



( '. Peterson & Sons, p]scanaba, have 

 completed an addition, 26x10-5 feet, to 

 their greenhouses, and now have over 

 21,000 square feet under glass. The ad 

 dition will be used as a carnation house. 



The Lakeside Floral ("o. is erecting a 

 modern barn in connection with its green- 

 houses at Chassell, for horses and for 

 storing hay and rigs. 



A. E. Davis, proprietor of the South 

 Side Greenhouses, Bangor, is building 



