Joseph Pemberton was a British clergyman and rosarian, remembered for creating the hybrid musk class of cultivated 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...

s. A keen amateur grower, he joined the Royal National Rose Society

Royal National Rose Society

The Royal National Rose Society is dedicated to the cultivation and appreciation of roses. It was founded in 1876 and is based in St Albans in England...

 shortly after its founding, and in 1911 served as its president.

After his retirement in 1914, Pemberton turned to rose breeding, using the climber 'Trier' (descended from 'Aglaia', a 1896 cross by Peter Lambert using Rosa multiflora), he crossed it with hybrid tea

Hybrid Tea

Hybrid Tea is a cultivar group of roses, created by cross-breeding two different types of roses, initially by hybridising Hybrid Perpetuals with Tea roses...

s to produce a class of highly scented, generally cluster-flowered roses which remain popular garden material to this day. Initially he classed them also as hybrid teas, but later took to referring to them as 'hybrid musks', based upon a tenuous link between 'Trier' and Rosa moschata

Rosa moschata

Rosa moschata is a species of rose long in cultivation. Its wild origins are uncertain but are suspected to lie in the western Himalayas.-Form:R...

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Roses bred by Pemberton

• Buff Beauty
• Clytemnestra
• Cornelia
• Danae
• Felicia
• Francesca
• Kathleen
• Moonlight
• Nur Mahal
• Pax White
• Penelope
• Prosperity
• Robin Hood
• Thisbe
• Vanity