. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. COLD WEATHER DOES NOT BOTHER THE FLORIST WHO USES XHE Wilks Hot Water Mm MADE ENTIRELY OF STEEL S. Wilks Mfg. Co., Chicago. January 13, 1912. Gentlemen:— We are having the very best results from the big boiler (30x48 Wilks Heater) now in use on the farm, and I cannot too highly congratulate you on the way it is giving us service, for this morning we have 36 degrees below zero and the " big fellow " just kept the greenhouse standing at 57 degrees from 8 o'clock last night until 6 o'clock this morning without any attention. Yours very truly
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. COLD WEATHER DOES NOT BOTHER THE FLORIST WHO USES XHE Wilks Hot Water Mm MADE ENTIRELY OF STEEL S. Wilks Mfg. Co., Chicago. January 13, 1912. Gentlemen:— We are having the very best results from the big boiler (30x48 Wilks Heater) now in use on the farm, and I cannot too highly congratulate you on the way it is giving us service, for this morning we have 36 degrees below zero and the " big fellow " just kept the greenhouse standing at 57 degrees from 8 o'clock last night until 6 o'clock this morning without any attention. Yours very truly, H. F. BoTT, Altoona, Pa. SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES. SwiT ifc nirr m ^^^^ ^^^ An., MentloD The Review when tou write fire-box almost any of them can be left for a number of hours. PIPING A UBAN-TO. I have a lean-to, 20x20 feet and twelve feet to the ridge, with 3-foot board side walls. The front end is five feet six inches high. All of the sides and the front above the wall are glass. ^ I shall heat this house from an adjoining building, where I can only go three feet at the most below the floor level of the greenhouse. The greenhouse faces south. I shall want a temperature of 60 to 65 degrees in zero weather. What amount of pipe is needed and how should it be distrib- uted! The house has been used as a cold grapery, but I can alter the benches to meet the demands of the heating system. I intend to take the grapevines out, rearrange the benches and put another bench in the place where the grapes are now, making one continuous bench along the south wall. There is a door in the east side of the lean-to, about eight feet from the ad- joining building. The boiler is near the northwest corner of the house, but in the basement of the other building. I am located in the southeastern part of New York state. F. C. M. An Innovation in Steam Trap Design and Construction THE NEW The door on the east side of the lean- to must be taken into account in ar- ranging the piping. If possib
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