Mr. Lanham was able to harvest his first rose blooms for the house today, cutting two from his Madame Charles Lutaud bush and two from Ophelia. “The former is a very lovely orange yellow rose,” he wrote. I couldn’t find a namesake for this rose, though it is likely the wife of the French civil servant who was governor of Algeria and later a diplomat in …
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