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The Rorists' Review 



JCNB 27, 1912. 



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FLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY J 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



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 editor of the Heating Department, de- 

 scribing their troubles or asking any 

 questions regarding the heating of green- 

 houses, the piping or boiler-room. But 

 please do not ask us to make a choice of 

 apparatus for you. Each boiler adver- 

 tised in The Review is a good boiler, and 

 the advertisers sell them on their merits. 



JUMBO. 



There are two points of special in- 

 terest in the accompanying illustration: 

 In the first place, it is an unusually 

 large boiler that is shown on the 4- 

 horse truck — 225 horse-power, eighty- 

 four inches in diameter, twenty feet 

 long, containing ninety-six 4-inch tubes, 

 weight 25,250 pounds and will heat 

 135,000 square feet of glass to a rose 

 temperature in zero weather. Of course 

 this is a boiler for steam. It was built 

 by Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago, which 

 leads to the second point of interest in 

 the picture: At the right stands Charles 

 Kroeschell, the venerable president of 

 the company and the father of the hot 

 water greenhouse boiler that has made 

 the firm so well known in the trade. 



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HEATING AND VENTILATING. 



We are going to build and want ad- 

 vice on the heating, ventilating and 

 general arrangement of a greenhouse 

 20x100 feet and six feet to the eaves, 

 with two feet of glass in the side walls. 

 The south gable will be glass, with a 



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door in the center. The north gable 

 will be attached to a two-story office 

 and garage. There will be a door in 

 the center of this end, with a stairway 

 leading to the office, which is on a 

 level with the street. The boiler pit 

 will be two feet lovver than the green- 

 house floor, extending the full width, 

 for convenience in filling the coal bin, 

 which occupies half the pit. We are 



Charles Kroescliell Standing Beside a Mammoth Boiler. 



forced to place the boiler in the west 

 end, entering to the left of the stair- 

 way and carting the ashes out through 

 the greenhouse. The side benches will 

 be two and two-thirds feet wide and 

 there will be two 3 1^ -foot benches 

 through the center, with one foot of 

 space between. 



We wish to use twenty feet of this 

 house for roses and the rest for carna- 

 tions. How should we arrange this, 

 with a glass partition, which should be 

 next to the brick building? We shall 

 use a hot water heating system; how 

 should it be piped? We should like 

 to be able to have a temperature of 65 

 to 70 degrees in zero weather if 

 wanted, in this Kansas climate. Would 

 it not be a good plan to have part of 

 the ventilators hinged at the ridge on 

 the east side and part on the west side? 

 We shall be thankful for any help you 

 can give us. A, J. K. 



To heat the house described, it will 

 be well to run four 2 1/^ -inch flow pipes 

 to the farther end from the boiler, lo- 

 cating one on each plate and the others 

 a couple of feet under the ridge, and 

 from each of these feed a coil of three 

 2-inch returns. The returns should! 

 be under each of the benches, and will 

 give a temperature of 55 to 60 de- 

 grees. 



In order to obtain the extra heat re- 

 quired for the rose room, take off a 2- 

 inch flow from each of the flow pipes 



