NB The question in this letter was prompted by the discovery of the following in the Hadspen Estate notebooks:

1818 – laid out of flower ground anew

Johnny; a query, possibly a misreading. I think I am right in saying that your dating of the building of the D shaped Walled Garden at Hadspen is
based on a reference in the Estate notebooks to Remaking the Flower
Garden.

If this is the case, does this imply that the garden was used for growing
cut flowers for the house principally, but presumably with vegetables as
well?

I am interested for obvious reasons, and because currently there is a
strong revisionist rhetoric in favour of its being remade as a vegetable garden.
I am right in assuming, aren’t I, that it can never have had an
ornamental/amenity role?

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