Booklet  (2022)  Page(s) 68-69.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Vestey's Yellow" 

Magazine  (2019)  Page(s) 37. Vol 41, No. 2.  Includes photo(s).
 
Margaret Furness.  Mystery Teas in Australia.
“Vestey’s Yellow”, collected from 'Coombe Cottage', Victoria, home of Dame Nellie Melba and later of her grand-daughter Lady Vestey. Syn. “Mulvay Rose” (WA), “Dr Russell’s Yellow” (SA). Tea or HT-Tea. Flowers are informal, with the petal count varying from 10 to 30. The colour is variable yellow, with petals fading at the edges as the flower opens. Light, sweet Tea fragrance. It flowers throughout the year and is prolific, making a cheerful display. Well-armed with straight or hooked prickles. Occasional hips, aging yellow with red striation, but few persist. Vigorous, to about 1.8m with light pruning. 

Magazine  (2015)  Page(s) 21. vol 37 No. 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Patricia Routley. If I Could Only Grow Ten Roses.
"Mulvay Rose" (syn "Vestey's Yellow Tea"). Rose Marsh sent me over cuttings of this foundling in 1998. It is an upright hybrid tea with strong hints of tea showing through. There are yellow buds having 10-12 petals, opening yellow and fading to cream with some very pretty petaloids curling over in the centre. It is a lovely rose. Its real identity is still unknown but 'Melody' 1911, 'Vanity' 1901, 'Luna' 1918, and 'Gustave Regis' 1890 are amongst some possibilities. I'll need this rose with me so I can walk from it back to the keyboard constantly checking characteristics, for I will have time then to do this sort of thing.

Book  (2011)  Page(s) 115.  Includes photo(s).
 
Hillary Merrifield. Mystery Tea Roses in Australia. At least two of the unidentified teas were found in several Australian states and were probably once popular varieties. "Vestey's Yellow Tea", a semi-double rose with deep purple new foliage, was found in Victoria, but is known in South Australia as "Dr. Russell's Yellow" and in Western Australia as the "Mulvay Rose".

Book  (2008)  Page(s) 194.  
 
[much more to be read here]
.....We have considered and discounted the Teas 'Beryl', 'Comtesse de Frigneuse' and 'Mme. Chedane Guinoisseau' because our rose does not match early illustrations and descriptions....

Magazine  (2007)  Page(s) 29. Vol 29, No. 3.  
 
Some Roses in SA through Californian Eyes, by Margaret Furness and Pat Toolan.
Phillip Robinson and Gregg Lowery....considered "Dr. Russell's Yellow" to be distinct from "Lady Vestey's Yellow Tea" but the same as the HT that was sent to them mislabelled as 'Beryl'. They are still looking for its true name.

Book  (2004)  Page(s) 205.  Includes photo(s).
 
“Mrs. Vestey’s Yellow Tea”. Tea. This foundling rose came from Mrs. Vestey’s garden in Victoria. It bears large quantitites of long buds that open to soft yellow flowers of ten to twelve petals. They are loose in form and most attractive in cooler weather. It is grown a lot in Australia, but no one knows its true identity. It forms a large bush to 2m (7 ft) high. Zones 8-11

Website/Catalog  (2003)  Page(s) 89.  
 
Vestey Yellow Tea. Tea. Medium Yellow. Unknown.

Website/Catalog  (2002)  Page(s) 8.  
 
Tea Rose. "Lady Vestey’s yellow Tea" (unknown) . Bright yellow pointed buds open to loosely semi-double wavy-edged paler yellow to primrose flowers. To 1.5m.

Book  (2002)  Page(s) 159.  
 
Coombe Cottage, Coldstream, Vic., originally part of Yering station, was bought in 1850 by Paul de Castella, brother of Hubert. The site was purchased in 1909 by (Dame) Nellie Melba (1861-1931), at that time enthroned as the leading soprano of the age. To increase links with her homeland, Melba developed Coombe Cottage as a retreat from her London residence. An architect’s drawing annotated ‘copy to be sent to Mr. Guilfoyle’ 1911) suggests that William Guilfoyle may have advised on the earliest section, presumably the sweeping front lawns and beds. The garden was well developed by the early 1920’s; its compartmentalised design is redolent of both the arts and crafts movement and Melba’s penchant for extending and embellishing the garden. .... Edna Walling worked at Coombe in 1927, assisted by Burnley graduates Betty Begg, Mollie Shannon, and Joan Anderson....

[Note – Lady Vestey is mentioned by 'The Age' website:
Melba's granddaughter Pamela Armstrong, now Lady Vestey and patron of the Lilydale and District Historical Society....]