Book  (23 Jun 1987)  Page(s) 21.  
 
Alexander Hill Grey.  One of the great favourites early in this century among Australian gardeners, very floriferous, with richly fragrant creamy yellow flowers.

Book  (1975)  Page(s) 45.  
 
L. Arthur Wyatt:    
Exhibition-type Teas continued to be raised, and for this reason, they tended to remain in commerce after the decorative types had been discarded.    Notable among the survivors are the famous ‘Maman Cochet’ in a colour combination not repeated until the arrival of Kordes’ Perfekta’ more than sixty years later, ‘Mme. Jules Gravereaux’ sent out as a Climbing Tea but more likely to remain a large bush in our (UK) climate, and ‘Alexander Hill Gray’, sometimes called ‘Yellow Cochet’, and honouring the Scottish laird who sold up his estates north of the border and moved to Bath for the sole purpose of growing Teas in the milder climate,  although Hill Gray himself admitted his favourite was ‘Mrs. Foley Hobbs’, raised in 1910 by a famous amateur hybridist, Dr. J. Campbell Hall.

Book  (1960)  Page(s) 88.  
 
A. W. Jessep,  The March Of Roses. 
Alexander Hill Gray (on exhibition roses lists for the thirties and forties.  Not listed in the fifties)

(24 Jul 1954)  Page(s) 17.  
 
Thornless Rose is Rarity Now
By S. B. WATKINS
RECENT letters in the "Brisbane Telegraph" concerned thornless roses. One correspondent mentioned a variety with lemon yellow perfectly shaped blooms in her garden which was entirely thornless. A second correspondent gave the name of this rose as Alexander Hill Gray, and this is undoubtedly correct. Today Alexander Hill Gray, along with many other roses of the tea class, to which A. H. Gray belongs, has disappeared from rose lists. It was introduced in 1911 by A. Dickson, a leading British rose hybridist, and for many years was a very popular variety. Its main defects were a tendency to ball (i.e. the tight full buds would not open freely), and lack of colour.

(8 Jun 1954)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Thornless roses
With reference to the "Thornless Rose" (2/6/'54), I would like to inform R. Craddock that I have no doubt the rose she speaks of is Alexander Hill Grey. I have had one in my garden for just on 30 years, and we gather beautiful blooms from it. It is absolutely thornless. — (Mrs.) S JOHNSON, Enoggera.
 

Book  (1953)  Page(s) 75.  
 
Dr. A. S. Thomas, Victoria:    The old Tea rose, Alexander Hill Gray, is now rarely seen even on the show bench.   It does not open consistently well, and cannot compare with many more recent varieties in colour or firm stem.     Sunburst, Aspirant Marcel Rouyer and Souvenir der H. A. Verschuren are all healthy growing Hybrid Teas in varying shades of chrome yellow.

Book  (1953)  Page(s) 255.  
 
Alex. Hill Gray.  E.  (T).  – Deep lemon yellow.   Large, full, high centred.  Graceful reflex.  Vigorous.

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 108.  
 
Alexander Hill Gray (Exhibition or Show rose)  A fairly vigorous grower in Victoria and other Southern climates, but purely for exhibition, for which it is usually shaded.   Large, full centred yellow bloom, best on short standards.   Light perfumes.  3  (Figures 1,2,3 & 4 refer to size and habit of growth) Tea.

Book  (1940)  
 
p96-2   Harry Hazlewood, Rose Development 1900-1939.
Reviewing any long list of Roses of recent introduction, particularly in the yellow, coppery and fancy sections, it will be found that a few retain the form of pre-Pernetiana days, but many carry the short dumpy bud and other weaknesses of the unfortunate H.P., Rosa foetida and similar crosses.     From these remarks it will be seen that the 1920-1939 list cannot justly claim any development in form or size, particularly when opposed to Alexander Hill Gray and …..  

p123-15    Mr. W. H. Dunallan, Vic:    …. pleased to see so many of the older roses staged and holding their own with newer varieties…..Alexander Hill Gray (1911)  were strongly in evidence.

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Alexander Hill Gray ('Yellow Maman Cochet'; 'Yellow Cochet') Tea. (A. Dickson, 1911)... deep lemon-yellow, becoming deeper...