Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 479.  
 
Queen Mab China, soft rosy apricot, center shaded orange, reverse tinted rose and violet, 1896, Paul, W.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Queen Mab China. W. Paul, 1896. [Author cites information from different sources.]

Book  (1983)  Page(s) 91.  
 
'Queen Mab'. (1896) This little treasure took some tracking down and it has been worth it. Usual China features of coppery young foliage, wiry growth to over a metre. The flowers are very double, flat when open, quartered and 60mm across. The colour is soft apricot which deepens with age.

Book  (1966)  Page(s) 72.  
 
'Queen Mab' is further along the wall, a beauty with extra full blooms of a rosy-apricot, a vivid orange base, and dark reddish foliage. Unfortunately, the heavy petals cause the blooms to open badly in wet weather – a trouble with never occurs with the more loosely petalled Chinas. William Paul, who bred 'Queen Mab', considered that it would become an excellent plant for massing in beds, and also recommended it as a buttonhole rose.

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 46.  
 
China Roses
Pruning.—These may be treated much like the Dwarf Polyantha.
Queen Mab... Soft rosy apricot, centre shaded orange, outside tinted rose and violet. Introduced 1896. 

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 439.  
 
Mab, Queen (china) W. Paul 1896; tender apricot, center orange, reverse pink, shaded violet, medium size, semi-double, flat, in clusters of 3-8, lasting, floriferous, continuous bloom, growth 6/10, bushy, short. Sangerhausen

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 208.  
 
Walter Easlea. Reminiscences. …To show the fine character of the man, [William Paul] I may mention one little incident. We were about to exhibit several new seedling Roses, for one of which we had not a name selected. It was a dainty little Rose, and I suggested the name of 'Queen Mab'. He turned to me and said, “Was she a good woman?”

Book  (1926)  Page(s) 60.  
 
Queen Mab (China - W. Paul & Son, 1896): more like a thin Hybrid Tea than a China, but the yellow Chinas are all more or less mixed with other types

Book  (1926)  Page(s) 201.  
 
B. W. Price. Habit in Roses. Then there is the “dwarf-bedding” habit, such as we find in 'Mrs. C. E. Pearson'. This variety, and some of the Chinas like 'Queen Mab', might almost be classified as “carpet-bedders” and they do admirably as an edging to Rose plots.

Magazine  (Aug 1924)  Page(s) 84.  
 
[Comments of Comtessa de Senni - Mary Gayley (December 1884 Birdsboro PA - March 14, 1971 Rome) married Count Giulio Senni in 1907]
J'ai un faible pour les roses simples et les hybrides de Bengala; je les trouve utiles surtout pour leur dernière floraison qui, quelquefois, atteint la Noël et même le plein hiver; leur légèreté permet à leurs fleurs de s'épanouir quand les nuits froides empêchent aux autres roses de s'ouvrir, ce qui les rend semblables à des pommes de choux. La couleur de Nobel soit en bouton soit ouverte est surprenante ; belles aussi sont les roses Irish Fireflame, K of K, Vesta, Simplicity, Innocence, Hawlmark, Crimson. Parmi les Bengala, Mme Laurette Messimy est une rose « à toute épreuve », il faut citer également : Mrs Ed. Clayton, Mme E. Resal, Comtesse de Cayla, Mlle Mab et Mlle de la Valette, celle dernière est bien jolie, et de couleur fraise.