1909 Hawter Nurseries, W.A.
p80 Lady Battersea Bright rosy crimson, tinted with orange, changing to rose as the flowers expand.

1909 H. Kemp, Unley Park Nurseries, S.A.
p28. HT. Lady Battersea Beautiful cherry crimson, with orange shading; blooms carried on long stems; very attractive; free and good.

1911. Geo. H. Mellen Co., Innisfallen Greenhouses, Ohio, USA
p7. Lady Battersea This variety has long pointed buds of the largest size and very striking in form; the color is bright cherry-crimson; the stems are stiff and extremely long; a vigorous grower and free in bloom.

1918 The Rose Annual
p74. H. R. Darlington. A Study of Form in the Rose. Lady Battersea an early Rose long in the bud, is purely decorative……We may trace the decorative type, of which I have taken ‘Lady Battersea’ as an example, in very varying form through ‘Edu Meyer’, looser and less shapely, through ‘Betty’, good in August, ’Mme. Segond-Weber’, ‘Mrs. Alfred Tate’ and ‘Dorothy Ratcliffe’ to ‘Ophelia’, one of our most successful garden Roses…..