Clifford's banana plant Size:M: 60 x 45cm forty Cardens were assembled each

forty Cardens were assembled each week at the Berkshire factory

Beneath is an view of his execution on Tower Hill

Newington Butts and shops in Newington Causeway

Many of these were blamed on inadequate investment in signalling and other necessities

Showing the exterior of St Stephen Walbrook and the equestrian statue of King Charles II in the centre

Clifford's banana plant Size:M: 60 x 45cm forty Cardens were assembled eachBotanical 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