Heating is perhaps the most vexing problem ...

Heating is perhaps the most vexing problem ...

Heating is perhaps the most vexing problem concerning orchid housing.

Fear of heating failure, which may leave orchids exposed to the disastrous cold of freezing weather, causes the sleepless nights of many an orchidist.

One amateur has gone so far as to have an alarm bell rigged up in his bedroom to warn of any heating failure.

Most of the worry can be avoided if enough thought goes into a heating plan well in advance of construction.

Visits to the houses of other growers, discussions with them of the merits of different systems, conferences with a local plumber or heating expert, and investigation of available material will be worth all the time and effort so spent.

The simplest heating systems can be considered only expedients-some of them dangerous ones.

The fumes of a kerosene stove are disagreeable to humans but a few orchids in a tiny house.

In case of emergency, and many an amateur has set the alarm for the middle of the night to refill the stove against the cold.

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