. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. BUILT FOR BEGINNERS WILKS BOILERS are ideal for the man who owns a small greenhouse, who does his own firing and needs a \mler that can be relied on at all times. WIlKS BOILERS are self-feeding. Fill the magazine with fuel in the evening, and an even, continuous fire will be main- tained until morning without any attention. WILKS SELF-FEEDING HOT WATER BOILERS are built entirely of steel, their lasting qualities: Read what this user says about S. Wilks MfK. Co : R. D. No. 7, Rockford. III., Jan. 1, 1910. We are using one of your 20x3() Wilks heater
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. BUILT FOR BEGINNERS WILKS BOILERS are ideal for the man who owns a small greenhouse, who does his own firing and needs a \mler that can be relied on at all times. WIlKS BOILERS are self-feeding. Fill the magazine with fuel in the evening, and an even, continuous fire will be main- tained until morning without any attention. WILKS SELF-FEEDING HOT WATER BOILERS are built entirely of steel, their lasting qualities: Read what this user says about S. Wilks MfK. Co : R. D. No. 7, Rockford. III., Jan. 1, 1910. We are using one of your 20x3() Wilks heaters in a 20x50-foot irreenhouse. and it is giving excellent satisfaction. Has been in constant use since 1H83 and seems to be as good as new. Yours truly, D. E. Bi'1(i>u;k. VinHLKik TOILERS will heat as iiluch as .'>000 square feet of glass to (iS" in zero weather. Writ* for Catalogue. S. WILKS MFG. cor, 3523 Shields Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. Mention The Review wln-u you write. inch pipe for the returns. The boiler should be able to heat a greenhouse 20x 50 feet, for which I would use eight 1^-inch returns in addition to one 1%- inch flow pipe. Of course if the radiation in the present plant is insufficient, or if it is 80 arranged that it does not give good results, it would be possible to help it out by putting in a few steam pipes to be used in severe weather. For that purpose the boiler described would an- swer for 500 lineal feet of 114-inch pipe, 400 feet of l^^-inch pipe, or 600 feet of 1-inch pipe. HARTFORD, CONN. The Market. Business is dull. The supply of out- door flowers is heavy and the quality is better than the average, owing to the cool summer and the abundance of rain. Only a small percentage of them are sold. The retailers are just buying about enough to make a window dis- play. There are plenty of roses in the market, but the returns for them are small. Variona Notes. John Coombs has completed carna- tion planting. He has grown his asters under cloth thi
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