 Though not the first known banana specimens in Europe, around 1834 Cavendish received a shipment of bananas courtesy of the chaplain of Alton Towers (then the seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury).His gardener, Sir Joseph Paxton cultivated them in the greenhouses of Chatsworth House.The plants were botanically described by Paxton as "Musa cavendishii", after the Duke.