ROSE IS NAMED NA FROM ROMANCE I Indian Love Legend Gives Southern Rose Eose Its Name ATLANTA Ga Oa MarBy Mar lilaI lIy By ByI By I The A Associated Press Prese Press I time which will begin to break In Dixie before borore March has flown Is regarded reg by flower flower- lovers as the time of ot roses rosel I Almost all varieties are raised nt ni the th open In la this latitude and andI I farther tarther south almost the th year ear around Rose Host are ar to bo b found In profusion and especially especially- In GeorgIa where the th Cherokee Cheroke rose rules a favorite This flower takes take its lis It name from the Cherokee Cheroke nation cation of ot In- In in In dla diana S which made mad the th mountains ot of the northern portion of the state their habitat I There Is I no po authentic account ot of the origin orlein of ot the th rose ros but a legend handed down from tile the I Indians alii still I lives It InvolveS Involve a romance between a Cherokee I molden and a Seminole brave from Florida The Th young youny brave bran taken token pris prisoner I IThe oner otter by the th Cherokee was doom doom- doomed doomed doomed ed to die dl by torture after arter which i Itt body Ody was to be b thrown Into I flames But I 1 eore chore the th sen sen tenee tone could be carried Into tap exe exe- exe execution cution he h was stricken by dis- dis disease dis disease ease A tradition among the lh Chero- Chero keta was WIlS that no foe toe ever had been put to death unless he h was as In the th pink of or health Conse Conse- Consequently Consequently the youth was taken by bya bya bya a Cherokee chief to i Is own hut who set et his daughter to to nursing As the th Seminole Improved ed her feeling for him Increased and shortly before the th time he h was as to bo be put to death she be b toun found she he was wis In love with him jhn pleaded with him to escape with her help and make his bla way home borne lb Ho JIll reciprocating her love lo refused to todo do this hi unless she be accompany him hint At midnight they stole tole away but when a short hort distance the Indian girl said ald she he could not nol go 10 oh on without some memento ot of other her old homo home They returned and she sh broke brok a beautiful rose from a bush by the th hut of her bel rat fat LI her ner ncr Carrying thIs thi In her breast breut to I plant 1 theo the land farther south she ahe he plant plant- planted ed d It at her new hon home bonn It took root and flourished and lt it I milk milk- I white blossoms with golden cen- cen cen center ten ter lIe her childhood days das In tilt the far away mountain mountains of Georgia From Front that time tinte this flower Ms hn been known u s the Cherokee rose On nn