Magazine  (2019)  Page(s) 48. Vol 41, No. 1.  
 
Margaret Furness.  Tea, Noisette and China Mislabels in Australia. 
Lady Roberts may never have been more than part of the colour spectrum of Anna Olivier.

Newsletter  (Jan 2013)  Page(s) 22.  
 
English nurseryman Frank Cant discovered Lady Roberts (1902), the red-infused sport of the apricot Anna Olivier (Ducher, 1872). In New Zealand this rose was fi rst advertised by Lippiatt’s Auckland nursery in 1904, and continued to be off ered in newspaper advertisements until at least 1925. Interest in, and uptake of, the rose was almost instantaneous, with the fi rst description of blooms exhibited in horticultural shows appearing in newspapers in February 1905.

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 349.  Includes photo(s).
 
Lady Roberts Tea. Cant (UK) 1902... rich, reddish apricot blooms with a coppery base...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 80.  Includes photo(s).
 
Lady Roberts. Tea. Introduced in England in 1902 by the firm of Cant's of Colchester, which was founded in 1765, and is still going strong. It is a sport of 'Anna Olivier'. A bushy elegant rose with remarkably pretty well-shaped flowers which are apricot and reddish-orange, high centered in the bud and opening loosely (30 petals). The stems are a little weak, so it is perhaps best as a standard. A virtue is that it does not ball or spoil in rain. The bush grows to 4 x 3 feet (1.2 x 1 m).  Lady Roberts was the wife of 'Bobs', Lord Roberts, the victor of the Boer War, so this was an astute name to give to a rose in 1902. 

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Fremantle.   Sally Allison's address:
p40. Now this is a Tea. I just popped it in and I'm very pleased I did.  Lady Roberts - it seems to grow over here also. Again, there's another influence coming in here as it is a much, much deeper colour. It's a lovely, lovely rose, but I don't think it's grown an awful lot here, is it? - if it is, it is not known very much. 
p45. Margaret Moir's question to Sally Allison:
What is the difference between Anna Oliver and Lady Roberts?  The rose you call Lady Roberts I call Anna Olivier because our Lady Roberts is very dark coppery coral. 
Sally Allison: The Lady Roberts in my slide was actually identified by Peter Beales - that particular bush. He probably hasn't seen it being grown very much. Of course it's a sport from Anna Olivier, but it's the only one I've ever seen that has that very, very deep base (coppery red/orange) that fades out. I've only seen it in about three places in the world but Penny Young has got two supposed lady Roberts in her garden. 
Margaret Moir: I wonder if ours had more colour and was darker because of our soil and conditions. 
Neil Young: Our Lady Roberts was a cutting from my grandfather's garden and we identified it from his maps of the rose garden written in the thirties. Because of that, we also got Lady Roberts from a nursery and they are very different bushes. The nursery one was nowhere near the flower of the old one. 
Sally Allison: I saw your grandfather's Lady Roberts and it could be the real one. 
David Ruston: In certain weather conditions Anna Olivier can go quite coppery and in certain condtions Lady Roberts can go very pale. That's the great thing with the Teas, you never know when you've got them because they are so variable in colour. They can be a different colour in spring, autumn and winter and in the heat of summer they can halve the number of petals so I think most of the unknown Teas - there were 4,000 at one stage and half of them were cream 
flushed with pink - we'll never, never be able to identify the unknowns. You can't do it from a book  - we can say it 'may be' so and so. but we'll never be quite sure, I'm sure of that. 
p61.  David Ruston,  Symposium  of Tea Roses:  This is the lovely sport of Anna Olivier. Lady Roberts - a wonderful rose. She can go very pale and look like Anna Olivier and Anna Olivier in the summer heat can go very dark and look like Lady Roberts. But definitely one is a sport of the other, because the bushes have plummy-coloured wood,  they are sturdy and stocky, don't grow all that high, and are similar in growth and habit. 

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 301.  
 
Lady Roberts Tea, rich reddish apricot, base coppery red, edges shaded orange, 1902, 'Anna Olivier' bud sport; Cant, F. Description.

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 48.  Includes photo(s).
 
Lady Roberts  origin F. Cant, UK 1902.  Breeding: Sport of Anna Olivier.  An outstanding rose with dark green foliage and long buds opening to full, nodding, fragrant blooms in a lovely colour blend of rich apricot with a deeper base of reddish copper. This very healthy rose was discovered at Akaroa by Jessie Mould, One of the very many very old bushes to be found on Banks Peninsula. One huge, particularly fine specimen grows at Governors Bay in the garden of Heather Benbow. Continual flowering

p57.  Photo. 

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Lady Roberts Tea. F. Cant, 1902. Sport of 'Anna Olivier'. [Author cites information from different sources.]

Book  (1992)  Page(s) 347.  
 
Lady Roberts  F. Cant UK 1902. Sport of  'Anna Olivier'. A brightly coloured tea rose, apricot with deeper base heavily burnished with reddish-orange. Fully double, shapely. Good scent. Foliage dark green. Growth bushy. Continuous flowering. Full sun. Very fragrant. 4'x 3'. 120 x 90cm. 

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 156.  Includes photo(s).
 
Caption:  Lady Roberts  (1902);  a sport of 'Anna Olivier', also with apricot colouring.