Clifford's banana plant mb-copyright Andy Rementer A chimney-sweep dressed in traditional

A chimney-sweep dressed in traditional May Day costume

St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the distance

Prince Rupert's House

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

Clifford's banana plant mb-copyright Andy Rementer A chimney-sweep dressed in traditionalBotanical 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