Description:Estate Accounts from 1732-1733 tell us that hotbeds and hotwalls were added to the Kitchen Garden during this period, for the growing of fruit. In October 1732 John Emery was paid five pounds and eight shillings for ‘building the new cross wall in ye kitchen garden’. Later in December Emery was paid a further seven pounds and seven shillings ‘for building ye fruitwall across the Kitchen Garden’. Development of the Kitchen Garden appears to have gone on throughout this period. Following the construction of the beds and walls in the gardens in 1732, in May 1733 John Boulton was paid for ‘copeing stone’ for ‘ye new wall in ye Kitchen Garden’. Shortly after this the accounts indicate that planting began. In July 1733 Richard Bate who supplied the gardens with plants was paid nine pounds, seventeen shillings and sixpence ‘for Elm and fruit trees for planting’.
Contextual Information featured on pages relating to Trentham Gardens has been provided by Sue Gregory who has been instrumental in the research and selection of documents for this section. Sue has been part of the management team of Staffordshire Gardens & Parks Trust since its creation in 1992 and has over fourteen years of experience researching Trentham Gardens in the Sutherland Papers.