Booklet  (2022)  Page(s) 40-41.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Stiff Lady Roberts"

Magazine  (2021)  Page(s) 11, Vol 43, No. 3.  
 
Some recent discussions of interest on www.helpmefind.com.
Souvenir of Stella Gray (Dickson 1907, HT or Tea) has been suggested as an ID of the small-growing “Stiff Lady Roberts” syn.“N. Z. Lady Roberts”. It was widely available in the 1950s but is presumed lost now, and there are no recent photos.

Magazine  (Mar 2020)  Page(s) 38.: Vol 42, No. 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Margaret Furness.  Mystery Teas in Australia.
“NZ Lady Roberts” syn. “Stiff Lady Roberts”. Similar in many ways to Anna Olivier / Lady Roberts, but much less vigorous; it may be a sport or a seedling.  Double to very double. Petal colour varies with the season. The scent becomes unpleasant as the flower ages. Hips are medium to large. The prickles are sparse and variably hooked. New growth is burgundy, and the foliage is quite variable. The plant is low-growing.

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Magazine  (2019)  Page(s) 49. Vol 41, No. 1.  
 
Margaret Furness.  Tea, Noisette and China Mislabels in Australia.
The low-growing rose imported from New Zealand as Lady Roberts is incorrect - it doesn’t fit with being a sport of Anna Olivier. Better to call it “NZ Lady Roberts” or “Stiff Lady Roberts”.

Newsletter  (Jan 2013)  Page(s) 20.  Includes photo(s).
 
What Di Durston didn’t know when she identifi ed the Scarfy rose as the rare Lady Roberts, was that there was another bush of this rose in Dunedin with a much stronger provenance. I’ve known Pam Markby since our children were at PlayCentre together. At the time she lived in a fabulous bay villa behind a substantial macrocarpa hedge in Warden St, Opoho.....And to the left, in front of the triple double-hung sash windows, was a gorgeous apricot rose. Pam told me this rose was Lady Roberts. I’d never heard of this rose before, and was curious as to where she had got it from. I was surprised and amazed to learn that the rose had already been in the garden when they had bought the villa in the 1980s, and even more so when Pam told me that she knew the name of the rose because they had bought the house from the old lady whose father had planted it

Book  (2004)  Page(s) 256.  Includes photo(s).
 
 This rose produces very well shaped buds that open to copper and apricot-salmon flowers.  They come singly and in small clusters.  The bush is short and spreading with plentiful  mid green foliage and distinctive burgundy stems. Flower production is high in spring followed by a good repeat through the season and there is a strong Tea scent.  It was introduced in 1902 by Cant (UK) (Sport of ‘Anna Oliver’).  Zones 7-11.

[photo appears to be that of "Stiff Lady Roberts] 
 

Book  (2003)  Page(s) 82.  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo (of what appears to be “Stiff Lady Roberts”)
Caption: ‘Lady Roberts’. Tea – Introduced by Cant (UK) in 1902. Repeat-flowering; strong Tea fragrance. The stems of this rose are a pleasant maroon color (Bud sport of’Anna Oliver’).