Joseph Pemberton

Joseph Pemberton (1852–1926) was a British rosarian, remembered for creating the hybrid musk class of cultivated roses.

The Reverend Joseph Hardwick Pemberton was born in 1852 in The Round House, Havering-atte-Bower, Romford, Essex; he lived there with his sister Florence until his death in 1926.

He set up Pemberton Nursery at Romford and nearby where eventually some 35–40,000 roses were grown annually for sale.

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.

[1][3] Pemberton also bred a number of more conventional hybrid teas, and several Multiflora ramblers still worth growing.