Clifford's banana plant skirt Cliff Richard with a globe

Cliff Richard with a globe

East elevation of the Church of St Paul

while only the back of her dress is visible

and has been the organiser of the Prescott Hillclimb since 1938

Clifford's banana plant skirt Cliff Richard with a globeBotanical 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