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

Prince Rupert's House

horses and carriages in Threadneedle Street

Parnell was unpopular at the time owing to a forged letter in the Times which accused him of approving the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin

King George VI with Prime mInister Winston Churchill

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