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Marvelous, spacious home on Marvelle
1620 Marvelle Avenue
This home has more space than you’d imagine – 2,336 square feet of living space! Walk into the living room and you’ll find a spacious area with a fireplace. Off of the living room, you will find a large dining room, kitchen, and breakfast room with built-in shelves. There is even a cozy den with a fireplace. All the hardwood floors downstairs have been refinished. There are two bedrooms and an office downstairs. The full bathroom downstairs has been updated with new tile floors, the tub has been re-glazed and new fixtures installed. You’ll also find a utility room and plenty of closets.
Upstairs, there’s a master bedroom with full bathroom and walk-in closet and a second bedroom with plenty of closet space. You will find additional storage and eve access throughout the upstairs. The large fenced backyard has plenty of room for entertaining, either on the patio or the covered rear porch. This home has been inspected and all repairs have been made. This home is listed for $149,900. To schedule a tour or receive more information, call Kathy Akers at 266-4038 or email at akersbroker@suddenlink.net.
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kathy akers | 252.266.4038 | Boone, Hill, allen & ricks real estate | kathyakershomes.com
Stopping to smell the flowers: Behind the scents By LEE REICH Associated Press
GARDEN
Wave after wave of scent has filled the air since my garden awakened in spring. Most prominent have been the aromas from daffodil blossoms, plum, flowering currant, and now dame’s rocket, pinks and roses. Of course, it’s not for us that flowers waft those sometimes delectable aromas. Evolutionarily speaking, we don’t return the favor with anything more than the carbon dioxide that we – and all other animals – breathe out, and that plants use for photosynthesis. Flowers release their aromas to attract pollinators. As such, floral aromas might mimic countless other kinds of aromas, depending on just what creature a particular flower is trying to attract. Some of those floral aromas
are actually unpleasant to us. Skunk cabbage (smelly and inedible) is a good example, but there are worse – or better – examples. The arum lily of South Africa, for example: From its spathe, a spike-like inflorescence of many small flowers rising up from what looks like an upended purple skirt, wafts the smell of rotting flesh. This aroma is perfect for attracting the carrion beetles that pollinate this plant. Heat generated inside the inflorescence heightens the morbid effect and helps pump the aroma out into the atmosphere. But on to more pleasant aromas – for instance, flowers that mimic pheromones, the scents that female animals give off to
signal their readiness to mate. Of course, those ersatz pheromones coming from flowers are directed at insects, because they are the ones flowers want to attract to perform pollination.
FLORAL DECEPTION
More than mere scent may be needed to keep an insect on a flower. The mirror orchid, for example, deceives the male bees that pollinate it by not only smelling like receptive female bees, but also by looking like them. After one or two flowers, any smart bee is going to realize that he’s not dealing with a real female and give up trying. So to keep up the deception, each mirror orchid plant smells slightly different; it takes a half dozen or so before a AP PHOTO bee catches on, and by then the flowers have gotten what they A strong fragrance in addition to beautiful blossoms double the pleasure of Strawberry Hill rose, from rose breeder David Austin, in New Paltz, N.Y. See SCENTS, 2C
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