It was a “clear and cool, with dew on the roses,” Mr. Lanham wrote today. He cut a “lovely” bud from his F. Page Roberts bush and brought it to the Lanham & Sons store. (This picture of the rose illustrated a catalog page in 1927.) His yard man Mr. Holloway worked today, removing the black-spotted leaves from the roses bushes, and “worked ashes around t…
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