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Medium pink Polyantha.
Registration name: Madeleine Orosdy
Exhibition name: Madeleine Orosdy

Bred by Jules Gravereaux (France, 1912).

Polyantha.  

Pink.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  

Source: L'Haÿ-les-roses Label
The Orosdy castle is in Pilisszántó, near Esterzgom, Hungary. It was built 1899 by Fülop (Philipp) Orosdy (October 11, 1863 Istanbul - November 16, 1930 Tiszabő), the son of Hungarian national hero Lajos Kossuth's officer and secretary Adolf Orosdi (Schnabel) (d. 1879), when Fülop moved permanently back from the exile in Turkey to Hungary. Fülop Orosdy received the rank of Baron in 1905. His brother Léon Orosdi (1855 Aleppo - 1922 Paris) and sister Mathilde Back de Surany (Orosdi) (August 15, 1869 Istanbul - August 5, 1916 Nice) both moved to France. Madeleine Jeanne Berthe Orosdi (1889 - December 1940) was the daughter of Léon Orosdi and Marie Abeille Guillot. She married Henri Esders, Belgian textile industrialist and owner of "Grands Magasins Henri Esders" for clothing in France. In 1938 she was the President of "Oeuvre de l'hôtel maternel" in Paris.
Adolf Orosdi had founded in 1855 the Ready-to-wear store "Orosdi-Back" in Istanbul, which was soon developed to a chain of department stores in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. The headquarters of Orosdi-Back were moved to Paris in 1888 under the direction of Madeleine Orosdy's father Léon, and expanded further Europe-wide.