Mr. Lanham's Diary: May 2, 1926

Cutting roses, rolling a ball

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 …