Clifford's banana plant mb-copyright Andy Rementer Prince Rupert's House

Prince Rupert's House

St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the distance

King George VI with Prime mInister Winston Churchill

This reflects the fear of a Catholic revival in Britain

Having read the financial news in The Times

Clifford's banana plant mb-copyright Andy Rementer Prince Rupert's HouseBotanical 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