Website/Catalog  (1864)  Page(s) 9.  
 
Queen Adelaide. Fr. 

Article (newspaper)  (27 Nov 1863)  Page(s) 3.  
 
 The Adelaide Horticultural Show:
Mr. F. C. Davis exhibited three roses which, we understand, have never before been shown in the colony. The first of these is named the Perle des Penaches, and is described as a white rose, striped with red and purple. The other two roses are named respectively the Queen Adelaide and White Fairy. The latter is a very tiny flower, the bush on which it grows being suitable for borders.

Website/Catalog  (1862)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Gall. Queen dark velvety purple, large and full
[Possibly 'Queen Adelaide' - refer 1863 reference]
 

Book  (1848)  Page(s) 62.  
 
The French Rose.
381.  Queen Adelaide flowers dark velvety purple, large and full; form compact. Habit, erect; growth , moderate. 

Book  (1832)  Page(s) tab 200.  Includes photo(s).
 
Russell's Queen Adelaide Rose. Rosa gallica var. regina.
Stems erect, branching: branches erect, or more or less spreading, clothed with irregular straight weak prickles. Leaves producing from 5 to 7 glossy leaflets, the two lower ones rather smallest, those on the peduncles producing only 3, and frequently reduced to one, those are almost reduced to bractes : leaflets ovately lanceolate or elliptic, sharply toothed, more or less deflexed, underneath paler, pinnately nerved, the nerves branched, clothed with soft hairs: terminal one somewhat cordate at the base: side ones smaller and narrower, frequently oblique at the base. Petioles glandularly hispid. Stipules narrow, attached to the base of the petioles, the points free, acute, and spreading, fringed with glandular hairs. Peduncles bracteate, glandularly hairy. Bractes alternate, broadest at the base, tapering to an acute point. Calyx glandularly hispid, viscous : tube ovately globose : segments lanceolate, tapering to the point, more or less lacerate, erect before the flower expands, afterwards spreading. Petals broadly rounded, slightly emarginate at the points; outer ones broadest and most spreading : the inner ones curved inwards.
This pretty little Rose appears to be a regular variety of R. gallica, without any admixture, and to be the nearest related to the Tuscany Rose; but its flowers are more numerous, somewhat smaller, and mixed with more red, and that of a brighter colour; those characters altogether makes it a very desirable plant.
From its dwarfish habit, and stocky growth, it would make a handsome bushy head, if grafted or budded on some of the strongest species of the wild Roses, such as those we have already noticed in a former number; or if grown as a dwarf bush, it would make a fine appearance when in flower, which it is a good part of the Summer. It was raised from seed by Mr. Russell, at the Battersea Nursery, where our drawing was made last Summer.