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The Florists' Review 



March 20. 1918. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



AN IOWA CARNATION HOUSE. 



Please tell me how many and what 

 size of pipes will be required for a car- 

 nation house 27 x 80, to heat it to 50 

 degrees when the outside temperature 

 goes down to 30 degrees below zero, as 

 it sometimes does in this part of Iowa. 

 Where should the pipes be located, on 

 the sides or under the benches, for the 

 best results? The house will run^ast 

 and west, with the boiler room at the 

 west end. The walls on the north side 

 will be double boarded, with no glass; 

 the south wall will contain twenty-four 

 inches of glass. I have quite a lot of 

 Ii^-inch pipe on hand. H. N. A. 



To heat the house, a boiler having a 

 capacity to heat at least 1,000 square 

 feet of radiating surface should be 

 used. For the flow pipes run one 2%- 

 inch main on each of the plates and 

 another two or three feet below the 

 ridge. While it would be better to use 

 2-inch pipe for the returns, the 1%-inch 

 pipe mentioned will answer. About five 

 or the returns should be placed upon 

 each of the side walls, and eight, to be 

 supplied by the overhead flow pipe, 

 should be distributed under the benches. 

 The flows as well as the returns should 

 be given a slight fall, and if the high- 

 est part of each of the flow pipes is 

 connected with the expansion tank there 

 will be no occasion for using air valves. 



GREENHOUSE AND RESIDENCE. 



I should like to have the following in- 

 quiry referred to your heating expert. 

 Each greenhouse firm gives me a dif- 

 ferent estimate of the amount of piping 

 necessary to heat my greenhouse, which 

 is to be used for growing smilax and 

 will require a temperature of 60 degrees 

 in zero weather. As you will see by 

 consulting the enclosed diagram, the 

 house is 25 x 95, seven feet high to the 

 eaves and twelve feet to the ridge, with 

 four feet of glass in the sides. Beds, 

 and not benches, will be used. 



The greenhouse runs north and south, 

 with the boiler at the north end. My 

 residence, which is also to bo heated 

 from the same boiler, is attached to the 

 southeast corner of the greenhouse. 

 From the boiler a 3-inch flow will run 

 south, under the ridge of the green- 

 house, and then turn east to heat the 

 residence. An. expert in the heating of 

 residences assures me that the 3-inch 

 pipe will furnish plenty of radiation for 

 the whole dwelling. As the enclosed 

 sketch will show you, the first story 

 of the dwelling contains a library. 



" *" Temperature Haintained 

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It should be, but you don't know 

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How valuable would a complete 

 record of the temperature ol each 

 hour of the nlsiht and day be to youT 

 A f^reat many dollars. Is the answer. 



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 for you. Your plants and stock re- 

 quire certain, steady temperatures. 

 Use this thermometer and you will 

 know whether they are (retting what 

 they need. It leaves a written rec- 

 ord under lock and key. 



Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 4, 1912. 

 "Please mall at once 2S charts for 

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 which I bought some seven years 

 ago, and which is a good, reliable 

 guide today." A. M. Herr. 



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(Successors to Parker Mfg. Co.) 

 65 Shirley St., BOSTON, MASS. 



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14x14 feet, at the south end; next 

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