Website/Catalog  (1921)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Roses.
Queen Mab, rosy-apricot, orange centre; class: China; habit of growth: vigorous.

Book  (1921)  Page(s) 109.  
 
China Roses
The following are some of the best of these dainty and prolific roses:
Queen Mab. Rosy apricot, with deep gold centre.

Book  (1920)  Page(s) 107.  
 
Mrs. H. R. Darlington. Roses in Autumn. …..while some of the comparatively more recent varieties such as 'Mme. Eugene Resal', 'Queen Mab' and 'Laurette Messimy' are well worth growing as big unpruned bushes.

Article (magazine)  (1919)  Page(s) 75.  
 
Queen Mab is very pretty, something like an apricot-coloured Safrano, only smaller

Book  (1919)  Page(s) 75.  
 
W. Easlea. Decorative Teas and China Teas. 'Queen Mab' is very pretty, something like an apricot-coloured 'Safrano', only smaller; and 'Arethusa' has much the same habit of growth, with clear sulphur-yellow flowers.

Book  (1917)  Page(s) 49.  
 
Mrs. H. R. Darlington. The Flower and the Leaf.
Queen Mab and the 'Comtesse du Cayla' are Chinas specially good in this respect, and in the autumn their reddish shoots and deep olive green leaves set off admirably the apricot and coppery shades of their blossoms.

Article (newspaper)  (7 Mar 1914)  Page(s) 10.  
 
Queen Mab is a China rose, one of the most uniquely colored of all garden roses; it is of fairly free growth, and a splendid flowerer; the color is rosy apricot-shaded orange.
 

Website/Catalog  (1914)  Page(s) 38.  
 
China Roses.
Pruning. — [No pruning necessary except to remove the past season's flower stems.]
Queen Mab... W. Paul & Son, 1896, vigorous. Soft rosy apricot, centre shaded orange, outside tinted rose and violet; very fine.

Book  (1914)  Page(s) 115.  
 
Mrs. H. R. Darlington. The lasting Qualities of Cut Roses. The chinas, so beautiful in the garden, droop rather quickly when cut. The two best for the purpose are the pretty apricot 'Queen Mab' and the lovely rose terra-cotta 'Comtesse du Cayla'; these when picked as buds open, and last well in water. Their stalks, however, are so thin and wiry that they must be well slit up or they cannot absorb sufficient water.

Website/Catalog  (1913)  Page(s) 110.  
 
‘Arethusa’. (China). Growth and habit of ‘Queen Mab’; flowers yellow, fluted with apricot, distinct and good.