. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 138 The Rorists' Review August 18, 1921 SAVE COAL! « » We want to send you the names of the nearest flo- ists who are using the UNION GRATE It Saves Coal We refer to Peter Reinberg, Emil Buettner, Bassett & Washburn, Wietor Bros., who are among the largest, most successful and best known Chicago Growers; also to the Albert Dickinson Seed Co., Chicago, and many others. See it working and you will order the Union Rocking Grate for the new boilers to be put in this season, or to replace your worn out grates. No change required in brick work of fur


. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 138 The Rorists' Review August 18, 1921 SAVE COAL! « » We want to send you the names of the nearest flo- ists who are using the UNION GRATE It Saves Coal We refer to Peter Reinberg, Emil Buettner, Bassett & Washburn, Wietor Bros., who are among the largest, most successful and best known Chicago Growers; also to the Albert Dickinson Seed Co., Chicago, and many others. See it working and you will order the Union Rocking Grate for the new boilers to be put in this season, or to replace your worn out grates. No change required in brick work of furnace. Can be installed as easily as a common grate. Write for catalogue and prices. Martin Grate Co., 343 S. Dearborn Chicago. to secure 70 degrees in the living rooms and 50 degrees in the sleeping rooms. For the greenhouse 20x80, three 3-inch flow pipes and fifteen 2-inch returns will be needed. One flow pipe should be two feet below the ridge and the others on the side wall plates. Arrange the re- turns in three coils of five pipes each, placing one coil under each side bench and the other over the middle bench. For use with soft coal the boiler should be rated for about 2,500 square feet. HEATING THREE HOUSES. I am building three greenhouses. Two of them are 25 x 75 and the other, 12 X 51, as shown in the accompanying sketch. What size of boiler, steam or hot water, will it take to heat the houses? How many and what size of pipes will be required? The houses must be heated to 60 degrees, when it is 10 below zero. How many square feet of radiation will be required for the three houses? H. J. W. E.—Ind. The accompanying sketch shows two houses, 25 x 75, with 4-foot walls and twenty inches of glass in the south wall of the south house. The third house is built across the west end of the other houses and is 12 x 51. The boiler room is at the north end of this house. The west wall of the west house has six feet of glass and is ten feet high. For each of the houses, 25 x


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