Rev. Joseph Pemberton

Rev. Joseph Pemberton (1850-1926). Produced roses between 1900-1920. Born October 5, 1852 in Essex, England.  After his Father’s death in 1974 he continued to live with his sister Florence. He grew his Grandmother’s roses that gave him fond memories of childhood and family.  With his sister as his helper, he decided to enter the family’s roses in a rose show.  He became an exhibiter of roses and was growing over 4,000 roses at that time.  He loved and admired his Granmother’s roses and wanted to produce fragrant roses.   In 1882 he took some of his Grandmother’s roses to a rose show.   People admired these roses and thus an interest in the old garden rose.  His ambition was to breed fragrant roses that would bloom up to Christmas.  His Grandmother’s stopped blooming in July.  He used the rose “Trier” in the development of his roses because of it’s fragrance.

He developed the line of Hybrid Musk roses that are large graceful arching shrubs.  Theses shrubs produce fragrant  white, pale pink and yellow flowers that bloom in clusters.

Shrubs we grow:  Moonlight (1913)  Penelope (1924), Cornelia (1925)