Clifford's banana plant skirt 'A Degenerate Daughter'

'A Degenerate Daughter'

British Open 1965

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were among those attending the ceremony

Showing figures entering the church

Clifford's banana plant skirt 'A Degenerate Daughter'Botanical 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