Book  (2010)  Page(s) 16.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Lady Medallist’ (1912) Alister Clark’s first publicly released rose

Magazine  (2006)  Page(s) 24 Vol 28, No. 3.  
 
Peter Cox. ‘Australian Roses’ [book]. Some of the pale pink rose photographs have printed poorly in the book on glazed paper, although the colour was good on the plain paper proofs. This could be due to the colour balance being incorrect for the sheet or insufficient light in the transparency. The roses are: p7 ‘Lady Medallist’.

Book  (2002)  Page(s) 213.  
 
I had just acquired a plant of ‘Lady Medallist’. Released in 1912 this was Alister Clark’s first great success. He named it for one of his racehorses – also a success. I had looked for it for years unsuccessfully. None of the rose nurseries stocked it. Most of them had never heard of it. Then unexpectedly it turned up a few years ago in a neglected garden in Western Australia. It is a vigorous climber. So I planted it between two of the red hawthorns and trained the long shoots horizontally. The first large, almost voluptuous, mid-pink flowers appeared in early spring.

Website/Catalog  (2000)  Page(s) 68.  Includes photo(s).
 
Lady Medallist - 1912. A rediscovered Alister Clark climber found in Western Australia in 1996. Regrettably very little information to offer until I have grown it into a mature plant. Fully double pink climber. $10

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 7.  Includes photo(s).
 
Lady Medallist - 1912. Unknown breeding. Clark’s first released rose. Large flowered climbing rose. Ovoid bud opening mid pink. Large, very double, slightly fragrant, pale pink flowers shaded white and repeating, the flowers have a weak neck. Large, pale green, leathery healthy foliage. Slightly hooked red thorns on new growth. Very vigorous. Flower: 95 petals, 110 mm, singly. Climber 6m x 6m.

Website/Catalog  (1999)  Page(s) 42.  
 
Lady Medalist [sic] available next season upon request only.

Website/Catalog  (1999)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Lady Medallist. Climbing H. Tea. 1912. Alister Clark. A fully double pink climber rediscovered in W.A. in 1996.

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Lady Medallist. Clark, Australia. 1912. Climber. Pink. (Available from:) Country Farm, Golden Vale, Hedgerow, Mistydown, Nieuwesteeg, Roses Galore, Spring Park.

Website/Catalog  (1998)  Page(s) 72.  
 
(No. 225) Lady Medallist (Alister Clark. Historic Aust. Climber). Lovely full doubles of pink. Bred in 1912, it was thought to be lost to us, but fortunately re-discovered in Western Australia in 1996. Very rare and desirable but also very garden worthy. Hardy, disease resistant and tolerant of some shade. $9.50 bare / $12.50 pot.

Magazine  (1998)  Page(s) 12. Vol 20, No. 1.  
 
John Nieuwesteeg, Coldstream, Victoria
".......I wish to thank the people from WA who sent me last year three very tiny budded rootstocks, with tiny shoots, of the Alister Clark rose Lady Medallist. I am not quite sure who it was. I think I know but better not print it as I may offend if I get it wrong. The plants of Lady Medallist have done very well. They did produce a few flowers in the spring, which were just beautiful. I also got with them an extra bonus - two of the plants produced suckers, and I now have Rosa fortuneana. Sometime late in 1996 Noelene Drage and Vivienne Alien visited here and I think it was they who sent me six rooted cuttings of Rosa fortuneana, but they all died. Now I have it anyway. ....
Today I cut bud wood of Lady Medallist to produce plants for winter 1999! (How many will I need?) I couldn’t help noticing once again what a lush, strong, healthy rose this is. A big thank you should go to the WA people involved in bringing this rose back from near extinction. As for it being correctly named - I believe it is. We will of course never know 100% for sure, but this elderly lady would not have made this name up. She must have grown the real thing all those years ago. … I felt straight away this has to be correct. Lady Medallist is, I feel, a wonderful rose. I have not seen many flowers but those I have seen were truly beautiful; and talk about grow! She just about bursts with health and vigour, great deep green bright shining foliage, not too many thorns, but no repeat blooms at all. You can’t have it all!