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Maucii 30, 1011. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



A View from the Balcony Occupied by the Florists' Supply Houses. 



bench and his interlocking, removable 

 soil or flat carrier, in charge of Rob- 

 ert McNair. 



Daniel Iliffe, Boston, put up a model 

 greenhouse, showing the details of his 

 standard type of commercial construc- 

 tion, including ventilating apparatus, 

 pipe hangers, etc. A Monarch green- 

 house boiler also was shown. Mr. Iliffe 

 personally was in attendance. 



The Weathered Co., Jersey City, N. 

 J., erected sections of two greenhouses, 

 one showing its curved eave construc- 

 tion and the other its standard commer- 

 cial type of house. In charge of C. B. 

 Weathered. 



E. A. Ormsby, Melrose, Mass., showed 

 a model greenhouse, with ventilating 

 sash operated by his worm gear ma- 

 chine. 



W. A. Bruce, Boston, had a booth to 

 advertise his specialty, painting and 

 glazing greenhouses. 



Heating Apparatus. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago, per- 

 formed the somewhat unusual feat of 

 carrying 1,100 miles a boiler weighing 

 1.200 pounds and setting it up in the 

 trade display. The boiler has a capac- 

 ity of 48,000 feet of glass. It was 

 shown fitted with the firm's shaking 

 and dumping grate and with the 

 Kroeschell heat generator for putting 

 the water under pressure. The boiler 

 was connected up with a demonstration 

 of the firm 's system of threaded tube 

 piping that enclosed the booth. Fred 

 Lautenschlager was in charge. The big 

 boiler was sold to John Barr, of South 

 Natick. 



American Auxiliary Heating Co., Bos- 

 ton, which recently took over the busi- 



ness of the W. W. Castle Co., showed 

 two Castle circulators in operation, one 

 driven by belt and the other connected 

 directly with the motor by a shaft. The 

 apparatus has been shown at many S. 

 A. F. conventions. It is used to force 

 circulation in hot water heating plants 

 that for any reason do not have the 

 desired rapidity of water movement. 

 J. L. Congdon was in charge, as here- 

 tofore. 



The American Blower Co., Detroit, 

 had a booth to show the New Detroit 

 return trap, with G. D. Millspaugh, who 

 has attended many florists' conventions, 

 in charge. 



The Morehead Mfg. Co., Detroit, had 

 a space reserved for the display of the 

 Morehead return steam trap, but the 

 exhibit was not in place at the hour of 

 closing this report. 



The Johnston Heating Co., New York, 

 set up one of its large return flue, steel 

 tubular steam boilers, with a water 

 heater used for forced circulation of 

 hot water. This is comparatively new. 

 The heater takes live steam from the 

 boiler and passes it around a set of coils 

 that contain the water, which is then 

 sent through the coils by a pump. J. 

 F. Johnston was in charge. 



Wm. Moll, Cleveland, showed the 

 Ideal steam trap, the Ideal pipe clamp 

 and the Bate evaporator for insecti- 

 cides. The display was in charge of 

 T. W. Moll and Guy Bate. 



The U. S. Radiator Co., Boston, ex- 

 hibited the Furman boiler, manufac- 

 tured by one of the constituent com- 

 panies, the Herendeen Mfg. Co., Ge- 

 neva, N. Y. Three sizes of the sectional 

 boiler were shown, of 5,050, 7,025 and 

 11,150 feet capacity, respectively; also 

 a round boiler of 2,525 feet capacity. 



John C. Moninger Co., Chicago, west- 

 ern representatives. The Rumsey pumps 

 were shown. 



Miscellaneous Exhibits. 



The Revere Rubber Co., Boston and 

 half a dozen other cities, made an elab- 

 orate display of well-known brand of 

 florists' hose. Rubber hose is a prosaic 

 article, but that it still is possible to 

 display it attractively the Revere people 

 showed in their booth, a pergola en- 

 tirely of hose. G. P. Whitmore was in 

 charge. 



The Boston Belting Co., Boston, had 

 a booth in which were shown, in a pyra- 

 mid of reels, over 9,000 feet of a new 

 special florists' hose the company is 

 getting out. Mr.- Smith was in charge. 



The Electric Hose and Rubber Co., 

 Wilmington, Del , showed Electric bose 

 and old-fashioned hose with water flow- 

 ing through them. The latter leaked. 



C. W. Brownell Co., Walden, N. Y., 

 had a display that was distinctly dif- 

 ferent from any other. The company 

 claims to supply ninety per cent of ail 

 The osmunda fern fiber used by the or- 

 chid growers of the United States, and 

 the display included four different 

 kinds; also orchid peat and leaf-njold. 

 The booth was in charge of R. C. Brow- 

 nell. 



ThR Boston Plate & Window Glass 

 Co. had an attractive booth showing 

 window glass for growers and plate 

 mirrors for retail stores. 



Means & Thatcher, Boston, made a 

 display of Winner paints, their special 

 greenhouse white. 



A. H. Hews & Co., Cambridge, Mass., 

 showed its full line of red pots in charge 

 of L. D. Bryant. 



