Peter Lambert

Peter Lambert was born in 1859, a third generation of nurserymen in Trier.  He acquired his knowledge of roses when working with his father Jean Lambert in his nursery.   Jean Lambert started a nursery, Lambert & Reiter, in 1869 with his brother.  Peter trained at a Prussian school of horticulture and gained experience working in nurseries in France and England.  He began his own successful nursery at Trier.  Lambert had over 50 years of roses breeding. His goal was to produce healthy flowering roses.  The first rose he produced was a China rose called “Moselfumchen" and a tea rose “Reingold”.   He produced a hybrid tea “Frau Karl Druschki” and a rugosa "Schneezzwerg".  Unfortunately the collection he had started was destroyed during World War II.  

He was a conservationist and encouraged the collection of the rose which resulted in the German National  Rosarium at Sangerhausen in 1904.

He mixed Polyanthas with Noisettes resulting in the Leoni Lamesch (1899, named for his future wife.)

Between 1889 and 1901 Lambert released 15 cultivars. In total he released over 179 cultivars.   During his rose breeding he developed the rose Trier which is the parent of many hybrid musks.   Rev. Joseph Pemberton used Trier and hybrid teas in the development of the hybrid musks. 

Lambert died in 1939.