Jean Claude Pernet, père (October 15, 1832, Villeurbanne

Villeurbanne

Villeurbanne is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after that of Paris. Villeurbanne is the second-largest city in the department.-History:The current location of...

 - March 31, 1896) was a French

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 rosarian known for his cultivation of rose

Rose

A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...

 cultivar

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A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

s. He was born to a family of rose growers in Villeurbanne

Villeurbanne

Villeurbanne is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after that of Paris. Villeurbanne is the second-largest city in the department.-History:The current location of...

, Rhône

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Rhône is a French department located in the central Eastern region of Rhône-Alpes. It is named after the Rhône River.- History :The Rhône department was created on August 12, 1793 when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was split into two departments: Rhône and Loire.Originally, the eastern...

, near the city of Lyon

Lyon

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. His father, Claude Pernet, established a rose nursery

Nursery (horticulture)

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 in 1845.
Among rose breeders today, Jean Pernet is known as 'Pernet pere' and was one of the first hybridizers who sought out novelties. He developed the Baroness de Rothschild Hybrid Tea rose in 1868, named for Baroness Caroline von Rothschild. In 1874, he named a Moss rose 'Soupert & Notting' in honour of his Luxembourg

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 rose breeding colleagues. Among his numerous creations are:

• 'Caroline Küster' - (Noisette) 1872
• 'Mme. Souveton' - (Portland) 1874
• 'Louis Gimard' - (Moss) 1877
• 'Cecile Brunner' - (Polyantha) 1881
• 'Merveille de Lyon' - (Hybrid Perpetual) 1882
• 'Souvenir de Victor Hugo' - (Hybrid Perpetual) 1885
• 'Triomphe des Noisettes' - (Noisette) 1887
• 'Marchioness of Salisbury' - (Hybrid Tea) 1890

Using Rosa foetida

Rosa foetida

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in 1887, he and his son, Joseph Pernet-Ducher

Joseph Pernet-Ducher

Joseph Pernet-Ducher was a French rosarian and hybridizer. Born near Lyon, the son of Jean Pernet, he was a third generation rose-grower. In 1879 he began his apprenticeship in the rose-breeding business with the Ducher nursery in Lyon...

, began developing a yellow rose through a cross between a red hybrid perpetual and 'Persian Yellow'. After Jean Pernet's death in 1896, his son carried on the experiments and developed a worldwide reputation in 1900 when he introduced the 'Soleil d'Or', the first yellow Hybrid Tea

Hybrid Tea

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. This rose it is now recognized as the first of the Pernetiana Roses (Roses of Pernet) and an important ancestor of 'Peace

Peace (rose)

The Peace rose is a well-known and successful garden rose. Over one hundred million plants had been sold, as of 1992. It is a Hybrid Tea rose with large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink...

', introduced by Meilland

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in 1945.