. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. "It May 22. 1913. The Florists' Review 23 can reduce his coal consumption he isn 't slow to adopt the apparatus that will do the trick. That's why the coal salesman who can give his customer in- telligent and disinterested advice in such matters makes so many firm friends among florists. The average coal man hasn 't paid niiich attention to the greenhouse trade. It's big business, but it's difficult to obtain by the methods used to get the factory trade. A few florists have city offices, where the buying and selling are done, but by far the gr
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. "It May 22. 1913. The Florists' Review 23 can reduce his coal consumption he isn 't slow to adopt the apparatus that will do the trick. That's why the coal salesman who can give his customer in- telligent and disinterested advice in such matters makes so many firm friends among florists. The average coal man hasn 't paid niiich attention to the greenhouse trade. It's big business, but it's difficult to obtain by the methods used to get the factory trade. A few florists have city offices, where the buying and selling are done, but by far the greater num- ber of the big greenhouses are far from the main traveled road, out in the coun try, miles from where a coal salesman has any other customer. Out of sight is out of mind. Consequently the aver- an greenhouses, but the West Virginia smokeless coals have come to be more largely used in greenhouses, perhaps, than any others. It may be that these coals have been fortunate in having the assistance of a number of manu- facturers of grates, who have recom- mended the coal to go with the appa- ratus, but it seems that, if this is the case, the shoe would fit as well on the other foot and that all those in- terested in the sale of anthracite or western bituminous coals have to do to establish a big, permanent and steadily widening outlet for their product is to i^how the greenhouse man what appa- 'atus he needs to burn that special f^^'a^of coal at a saving over present Hegidar Delivery a Factor. The big greenhouse contracts usually are made early. Every grower wants to fill his storage space to its capacity during summer, and the larger his re- quirements usually the more fore-. Boiler Plant of the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., Gibsonia, Pa. [This plant U equipped with eOO-horeepower boilers and Murphy stoken*. It burns 8000 tons of PittaburKh steam coal per year at a cost of $16,000.] handed he is in this important particu- lar. The man who uses only a few cars may take chance
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