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Show Krnky. Deccmbtr 5, IWiTHE DAILYiHBRALD, Home Magzine Page 7 Get expert to advise of options with bearing wail mean? remodel our home in another year or two. Our roof appears to supports a load, or weight, from have a small leak, and we have Q. We have a home. We want to above. The wall may support a some water stains in our living Temove the wall between the roof, a second floor or both. room ceiling. I want to have two bedrooms to create a masTypical residential loads can be someone fix the leak, but my ter suite and add two bedrooms supported by a beam in place of husband says we should wait and a bath on the other side of the wall. Every situation until we remodel and fix everyshould be reviewed by a qualithe house. thing at once. Our handyman told us we fied design professional or What should we do? A. Have your roof repaired might not be able to take out remodeler who can advise you the wall because it may be a of your options. immediately. Waiting only Q. My husband and I want to increases the potential for more "bearing" wall. What does that The Orlando Sentinel A. A problems. Avoid having to spend remodeling dollars on repairs. The stains on your ceil- bearing wall is one that ing indicate water' damage. This creates a potential for rot, which can ruin structural members and insulation. one-bat- h Poinsettia has become a Christmas tradition By COUNTRY LIVING For AP Special Features Unlikely candidates for holi- well-draine- d feet. They also have longer, narrower leaves and brachts than commercial varieties, whose foliage tends to be oak-leshaped. The name poinsettia comes from Joel R. Poinsett a United States statesman and amateur botanist who, among other things, . helped found the National Institute for the Useful Arts, a forerunner of the af Smithsonian Institution. During the 1820s, Poinsett served as a diplomat and then as the very first U.S. minister to Mexico, where he came upon the vibrant plant. When he returned to his home in South Carolina in 1829, Poinsett brought with him samples of the plant to which he lent his name and grew them in his greenhouses and casually distributed them Custom Home Designers Inc., Winter Park, Fla. He is a member of the Remodelers Council, an arm of the Home Builders Association ofMid-FIorid- a. Address questions to Ask the Remodeler, The Orlando Sentinel, P.O. Box 211, Orlando, Fla. 32802-021Personal replies are not Right home. Right price. Right now. I among friends and colleagues. The fragile, temperamental i w-4?v poinsettia was little more than a curiosity in the East and a simple fresh flower in the West until 90 years later, when Los Angeles farmer Paul Ecke began developing a poinsettia cultivar that could survive as a potted indoor plant. In 1923, the Ecke family moved its operations south from Hollywood to Encinitas, "il jtkim net Calif., in order to escape the increasing crowding of Los Angeles and also to be close to muWeve! homes V or livinfl and -Lake. good water supply and a railto 4 bedrooms 2 Nothing compu. feature So Utah near beautiful road siding. Here, Paul Ecke as as much z,whlots hurry-o-nly in vj " faced a new challenge: He had mats great tor Wh0t5 more, created a plant that could surto they're just steps everyone. vive transport outside the the lake. Choose flexible 16 Southwest. Now he had to cre,b among From the low this floorplans in ate a demand for it. masrei prestigious ' Before that time, poinsettia i" plan. Our spacious were not associated with Christmas in any way. Paul Ecke traveled across the coun766-82try, promoting and selling his l ' plants, convincing growers, IF wholesalers, retailers, and ultimately flower lovers, that the poinsettia was a great gift and colorful decorating idea for the Christmas season. Grown in the field of Encinitas, Ecke poinsettias were shipped to buyers all Hours: Deify across the country until the 1960s, when his son, Paul Ecke Or by eppsfatnrcnt. II, trained in horticulture al Ohio State University, took th reins of the family business. I .. Not only did he direct the com1 y i, pany to develop poinsettias in FoSowowfJfultam. the wide range of colors we find For mra including ones with today pink, white, yellow, and mottled brachts but he moved much of the crop indoors to greenhouses and changed the company's sales focus. The millions of cuttings that Ecke ships each year are the beginning of poinsettias across the United States and in more a than 50 other countries O end 1907 Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation Floorpiani. options and elevations vary by community Models dc not depict racial presence All total of 80 percent of all flower- IfMfI aquare rootage ligures are approximate and vary by standard ot measurement used Prices and lerms subject to change and poor sale Selected lots require premiums and predetermined options Homes pictured may not represent the lowest priced homes m the community. Only 30 tots remain as ot Il2if97 CSS Photos show upgraded landscaping. See Sales Representattve.lor turther detaas. The design ot this advertisement ts subject copyright protection ing poinsettias in the world. L day decorating, the colorful desert-nativ- e poinsettia has become a Christmas tradition through no small effort. Indigenous to Mexico and Central America, where they flourish in the highlands, wrote Matthew Holm in an article in the current issue of Country Living, these plants, which favor soil and moist, indirect but plentiful sunlight, are most often found in wooded ravines or rocky hillsides. Poinsettias have ordinary leaves as well as modified leaves called bracts that turn from green to crimson in response to the lengthening nights that accompany the approach of winter. At the center of the radiating brachts lie tiny golden blossoms, the plants' true flowers. Wild poinsettias are much leggier, larger than their potted cousins and grow as tall as 16 The presence of moisture also will create the perfect environment to attract termites. If you continue to ignore this problem, your remodeling project will be bigger than you planned. are answered by t Questions C. Lucia of Lucia James LinjUTAU CO. . ruati tm. Master nan uvm& , It Ta $130's Saratoga Springs A S ft fetesfba. 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