'The Banksia pyriformis' mb-width 2759 This was once the residence

This was once the residence of the poet Robert Bloomfield

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Mulhammed Ali in disguise as an old man

inscribed 'Genus

'The Banksia pyriformis' mb-width 2759 This was once the residenceBotanical study of the woody pear (Xylomelum pyriforme) a tree native to Australia and first collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Plate 21 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text describes this plant as 'Banksia with solitary flowers, ovate downy capsules, and lance shaped entire smooth leaves'. The plate is inscribed: 'The Banksia pyriformis. Published as the Act