Clifford's banana plant Size:M: 60 x 45cm Courtiers on foot and on

Courtiers on foot and on horseback surround the King

Church of St Mary Abchurch

showing the interior of a breeches maker's shop

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Clifford's banana plant Size:M: 60 x 45cm Courtiers on foot and onBotanical study of a banana plant belonging to the banker and Dutch East India Company director George Clifford (1685 1760). Clifford's estate and gardens were at Hartenkamp in Holland. This banana was grown there in a heated glasshouse and is thought to a hybrid of Musa acuminate and Musa balbisiana and therefore a cultivar plantain. It was among the first, if not the first, plant of this type to fruit in Europe. Plate 1 from the monograph Musa