Magazine  (2020)  Page(s) 11. Vol 42. No. 4.  
 
p11.  Pat Toolan. Perfumed Roses.
“C. W. Ellis”, Mrs David McKee (Alexander Dickson II, 1904), HT. This is a survivor on an early 1900s grave. Large creamy, double, cupped flowers: it opens wide to reveal a large boss of golden stamens. The strong lemon scent floats in the air surrounding it. Hard to grow successfully.

p31.  Photo.  Below, Mrs David McKee. Desperate flowering after being slashed to ground-level.

Magazine  (Dec 2019)  Page(s) 34. Vol 41, No. 4..  Includes photo(s).
 
Mrs David McKee, HT, Dickson 1904.  It was a popular showbench rose till the mid 1950s, but fashion changed toward high-centred blooms. The creamy flowers waft lemon scent and open flat, like a magnolia, but close up at night to regain a central ball of petals. It sets many large round orange-red hips. It is very hard to strike from cuttings and can be difficult to establish.  An old plant (study name “C. W. Ellis”) in a cemetery in SA is a tall robust bush, colonised by ants which defend it vigorously.

Website/Catalog  (19 Oct 2013)  
 
Registered Name: 'Mrs David McKee'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Mrs David McKee
HT, ly, 1904, Dickson, A.; flowers creamy yellow, well-formed, large, full, moderate fragrance; dwarf, compact growth. [Frau Karl Druschki × Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria]

Book  (1966)  Page(s) 94.  
 
H. K. Brand, Croydon, SA. ….my suggestion is to try it, for your environment may suit it. If not, have it budded on to a different variety of understock as I did with …. and ‘Mrs. David McKee’

Book  (1965)  Page(s) 148.  
 
R. E. Elliott, McLaren Flat, SA. Growing and Showing Roses. Perusing a list of nearly one hundred varieties which we were growing thirty years ago, I find only one of them in my present garden: ‘Mrs. David McKee’.

Book  (1959)  Page(s) 31.  
 
G. B. Templeton, Yea, Vic. Rose Recollections. In Yea I soon had a rose garden. I added ‘Mrs. David McKee’ and… That ‘Mrs. David McKee’ is still alive and blooming after forty years.

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 124.  
 
Beaumont Smith. Essentials for Rose Success in S.A. ‘Mrs. David McKee’, HT. A big cream rose of perfect symmetrical form, yet somewhat flat rounded centre; an exhibition rose which is often the champion.

Book  (1956)  Page(s) 78.  
 
Frank Mason, NZ. Recollections. Some of the best of this lot were and …‘Mrs. David McKee’. This was a real beauty and most reliable, a light yellow in colour except when shaded, when it was a real yellow.

Book  (1955)  Page(s) 89.  
 
Frank Penn. NZ. The Old and the New. What is commonly termed the “exhibition” rose has changed somewhat of late, the old heavy many-petalled enormous blooms, some of rather globular shape, gradually giving pride of place to blooms with high-pointed centres, and what one might term aristocratic form. During the early years of this century huge blooms like ‘Caroline Testout’, ‘Coronation’ (almost as big as a cabbage), ‘Mrs. David McKee’ and …. were the mainstay for all exhibitors out for championship honours….

Book  (1954)  Page(s) 135.  
 
A. Brundrett, Narre Warren, Victoria. The old single purpose exhibition varieties such as ‘Alexander Hill Gray’, ‘Mrs. David McKee’, ‘Mrs. Foley Hobbs’ and similar sorts are now so out of favour that they are very seldom listed.