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

forty Cardens were assembled each week at the Berkshire factory

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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