Jean-Pierre Vibert

Disabled by war wounds, he turned to gardening, and owned a hardware store.

Soon afterwards, in 1813, he purchased land in Chennevières-sur-Marne for a nursery, where he hybridized roses, fruit trees, and grape vines for raisins.

[1] When the pioneering rose hybridizer Jacques-Louis Descemet (1761–1839) was forced to leave his nursery after invasion by the British following the Battle of Waterloo, Vibert absorbed Descemet's nursery stock, 10,000 rose seedlings, and hybridizing records.

[1] Vibert was one of the founders of the Société d'Horticulture de Paris in 1827 (now National Horticultural Society of France).

His hybrids span all the classes in existence at the time, from the once-blooming albas, gallicas and damasks, to the newly introduced chinas, teas and noisettes.