The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-03-13
coNoERNINo RosE vALUEs.
Some Recent Litigation Indicates That
They Reach Hluh Figures.

Some Recent Litigation Indicates That
They Reach High Figures.
The rose IN popular estimation Is the
queen Of flowers, but appreciation OF
4 Is generally left for the poets ex-
preston. and its merits are not usually
threshed out IN the dry courts Of law.
It IS true that it has been associated
with one OF the worlds most interest
ing civil wars but even there the part
Il played was one Of sentiment ana
symbolism. and we have waited until
this unitarian age 10 have that sem
timent translated into terms OF COM
mercialsm. Perhaps those terms nave
been appreciated before this by those
who have sought to express themselves
in floral language to friends or sweet
hearts, especially In the winter sea-
son. but on a large scale we are en-
lightened upon the money value OF
these gems Of the garden by q suit
brought against the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad by Miss
Sarah B. Fay and Michael II. Walsh
Woods Hole.
Some time In May last year the COM
! pany was burning some old buildings
at that place, and the defendants
claimed that their rose gardens, stu
ated across the way, were seriously in
jured by the fire AS the company de-
MED its liability actions for damages
were brought and the cases were heard
before an auditor. who found for MISS
Fay and Mr.. Walsh in sums rising
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively. Before
the cases were reached for trial IN
court the railroad paid $4,000 in set
tlemeut.
P6bably Robert NJ Morse never be-
fore argued a case in which he en-
N ployed roseate language in such pro-
fusion as iR this. Such names as
"debut.2 - Sweetheart" and Lii
MAN Ng sca" should give to things,
fa1cious 4 themselves, a higher touch
of sweetness and perfection, and, there
fore, higher value To begin with, a
half dozen experts gave Mr.. Walshs
: collection of roses the highest praise,
I one testifying that it was unsurpassed
in this country" and another that II
!; was the highest class he had seen OF
/; any exhibitor in America without eX-
a ception." Not only the damage to these
e almost matchless beds was considered
but the "loss of prizes which he might
v have got" and the loss of advertising
\ which he would have had ii the hre
IS had not prevented him from exhibit
}: ing.
r, It is not often that even popular ant
N successful lawyers find their paths
y strewn with roses and the court room
n filled with a divine fragrance. Yet W
US should think they would appreciate
n such an exceptional opportunity. Tn
70 old detective in Wilkie Collins excit
nd ing story Of THE Moonstone" had
t. vocation which was to find out tn
sins and crimes of others; but he ha
an avocation and passion, which wa
he to grow roses and breed new varie
6o ties. The value of beauty has bee
an rather indeterminate. Trees and flow
st, ers have been regarded of small col
ne sequence when they got in the way
1al what are denominated the utilities, bl
he they are rising in the scale Of publ
he appreciation, and precedents like Il
T present will lend encouragement to Il
ere efforts that are making to increase al
ten nro+eot tham -Roston. Transcript.