Magazine  (Sep 2019)  Page(s) 16. Vol 41, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Editor:  'Penelope' Tea and 'Miss Rita Petersen'
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If we are lucky enough to find the original Tea rose Miss Rita Petersen, and to find it reverting, we’ll have an indisputable Penelope.

Magazine  (Mar 2019)  Page(s) 51. Vol 41, No. 1.  
 
Margaret Furness.  Tea, Noisette and China Mislabels in Australia.
Roses said to be the Australian-bred Tea rose Penelope so far are indistinguishable from Hugo Roller. Convergent evolution? DNA testing might clarify what’s what, but I can’t justify the cost.

Magazine  (2015)  Page(s) 27. Vol 37, No. 3.  
 
Hillary Merrifield, Billy West and Lynne Chapman. Renmark Repository April 2015.
'Hugo Roller' B22 / Penelope B19, A17, C22. Data collection on previous visit.
All the bushes seen were the same and corresponded to 'Hugo Roller' with varying numbers of prickles, or none, at the base.

Book  (2002)  Page(s) 644.  
 
John Williams (1858-1928)....His rose Penelope was awarded a Royal Horticultural Society certificate (1906), the first Australian-bred rose to obtain such a valued distinction, although due to marketing difficulties in Europe his cultivar was released by others before he could profit.

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 459.  Includes photo(s).
 
Penelope Tea. Williams (Australia) 1906. Parentage unknown... red flowers with an ivory center...

Book  (1986)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Heather Rumsey on Tea roses.   
The pink and white roses, that is the white bordered pink Teas often cause people a problem, but if you just carry out those few little rules and regulations you will find - I’ll mention Marie Van Houtte, Hugo Roller and Penelope (an Australian Tea rose), and the three of them are white with pink edges.  The Hugo Roller doesn’t have very many thorns.  The Penelope has more pink, and more thorns. 

Magazine  (1982)  Page(s) 14. Vol 4, No. 1.  
 
Jeanne Russell, Holland Park, Queensland.
I was overjoyed to read of Penelope (HT) as in our old garden at Five Dock, Sydney, my pop had a most beautifully shaped bush in the 1920's - 30's.  It has been so frustrating to see or read about her being pink with apricot overtones, whereas the rose I knew, and wanted, was deep red changing through to white and with no two roses looking exactly alike. 

Magazine  (1981)  Page(s) 2. Vol 3, No. 2.  
 
Esmond Jones, NSW:   Hugo Roller and Penelope are ‘look alikes’ - the former a vigorous grower which fails to drop its petals once the flowers fade;  every single petal holds on unti it is brown and withered, hence much dead-heading is needed.   the tea rose Penelope is a refined version of  Hugo Roller in soft creamy yellows with the outer petals stained rose pink at the edges.   Penelope grows taller than Hugo R.  and is not quite so prolific but makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity.  

Magazine  (May 1949)  Page(s) 20.  
 
The Queensland raised Penelope came out in 1906. it is still in good demand and in some districts does extremely well. It needs no help from knife or secateurs, only dead wood should be cut away. Hard cutting will kill the plant.

Website/Catalog  (1948)  Page(s) 7.  
 
Penelope Lower portion dark reddish crimson with creamy white centre; a unique combination quite distinct from any other; very full; good shape with strong guard petals; free flowering when well grown; vigorous and branching. Resents the knife and will do much better if left to itself. Somewhat subject to mildew, otherwise a grand rose in Queensland.