Joseph Pemberton
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Joseph Pemberton (1852-1926) was a British clergyman and rosarian, remembered for creating the 'hybrid musk' class of cultivated roses. A keen amateur grower, he joined the Royal National Rose Society 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 teas 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.
[edit] References
- Quest-Ritson, Charles (2003). Climbing Roses of the World. Timber Press. pp. 119-120
- Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. CRC Press. p. 544
