My favorite Pemberton musk of the 4-5 which I grow or have grown is Pax. I love the semi-double almost translucent blooms, the red stamens, and the long long elegant buds. Here are a couple of pics:

Jackie

I forgot to thank you for your link! That is an amazing article, and very valuable for anyone who has any interest in the Pemberton roses.

I also forgot to add that my original Pax, which was planted 30 years ago and is still in its original location, turned out to be a very tall climber. First it climbed up to the thrid story of our house, and now 30 years later we have it clmbing through and up a Japenese maple which is alongside of the front brick stairs, and all I have to do with it is prune the top of it occasionally to keep the top stair landing clear for pedestrians.

Jackie

Loved it! Thank you.

I grow 7 I've counted and they are beautiful. With the multiple smaller flowers, they are great backrounds.

Nur Mahal

Wow, what beautiful roses!!

Jackie, I would love to find Pax but haven’ t been able to. Yours is impressive! So now I’m deciding between Moonlight and Prosprity. Bubble Bath looks lovely too but have read she’s a very thorny girl!

Sheila, your Nur Mahal is stunning! She was one of the first roses I bought over 20 years ago but never got big, was kind of stingy, and finally succumbed to a harsh winter. Think I had a bad clone so maybe I’ll try her again.

The thorns on bubble bath are tiny but sharp. Like a little cat's claw. Don't remember those on prosperity I don't tangle with it much. I've always wanted nur but don't have that 1 nor moonlight

I love my Bubble Bath. Maybe 8 then.

It is not a Pemberton. George Matson.

I don't think it is any pricklier than Moonlight or Prosperity. They are all good.

Yours is so beautiful! Mine is planted next to the hybrid musk Belinda. I like them together a lot. In general I don't really notice the thorns on roses, I only remember Bubble baths because Lisa used to comment on them. There are so many hybrid musks mentioned in this article I forgot about And many I've never even heard of. Too many roses!

I also enjoyed the article very much and the (many) photos are great. I grow three hybrid musks and am very fond of each. I love 'Penelope' for her generous blooms and open growth. Generally, in the spring, the blooms are more cream, but there are quite a few peachy blooms too. This past spring - the only time I've ever seen it happen - instead of peach-colored blooms with the cream, the blooms were a solid soft pink. In the fall, the blooms are all cream and more open. I am also fond of my 'Nur Mahal'. The color is wonderful but hard to capture on camera. I read once where Liz Druitt said it had a great fragrance, but mine doesn't seem to have much at all. 'Bishop Darlington' is the newest one. I recently moved it from a too tight spot to dappled shade under a river birch. It is thriving so far. The very large blooms are magnificent. I'll post some photos below if I can.

My only Hybrid Musk is Ballerina, 21 years old, and going strong. She was bred in the UK in 1937 by a father-daughter team. Ballerina is totally carefree and likes to bloom with close neighbors like Tamora and purple poppies....If I had more space, I'd grow more hybrid musks for sure. Lucky you, Sheila, and your beauties, especially the gorgeous Nur Mahal. Diane

I'm reading The Small Shrub Garden by Judith Berrisford, published in 1961. She was gardening in North Wales and had this to say about the hybrid musks:

Musk rose hybrids are particularly free of their scent and to that very real garden asset they add a charm of bloom ad softness of colouring that is altogether delightful.

'Buff Beauty', the coppery-pink 'Cornelia', and the creamy-pink 'Penelope' associate well together with small, shapely blooms carried very freely in large clusters. 'Pax' is a larger flowered white. 'Felicia' is of rather a different type. With individual blooms that are very double and of a clear silver-pink it makes a compact and floriferous bush. It is rose to grow as an individual. 'Vanity', too, is an individualist, bearing almost single blooms of bright pink. Open and angular in habit, 'Vanity ' is best when planted in groups of three or four when it will make a sturdy thicket of growth.

All of the hybrid musks are so good that it is invidious to mention only a few. 'Francesca', 'Thisbe', 'Daybreak', and 'Danae' are all charming yellows whose only fault--if it is a fault--lies in their fading to ivory and cream. 'Moonlight' is a lovely white, with mahogany stems and dark green leaves, and in rich soil may be used as a climber of moderate height. Indeed, if I like any of the hybrid musk roses less than the others, it is those of stronger tones. The dark scarlet of 'Hamburg', the crimson of 'Wilhelm' and the more strident tones of 'Will Scarlet' and the light magenta-crimson of 'Nur Mahal' do not to me seem to fit in with the rest of the group, and are somewhat difficult to place in the shrub garden, isolated bushes giving a spotty effect. However the softer toned 'Magenta' with its 'old' lilac-mauve colouring seems acceptable and right.

Penelope