Visual Description: Landscaping letch trying to make hay.
RAFIR = FRIAR, NOVEY = ENVOY, TAWNUL = WALNUT, KEDBEC = BEDECK — Giving us: REOALDK
Clue/Question: What the pretty passerby considered the gardener.
Answer: AN OLD “RAKE”
(I can handle the archaic. I just hope these guys don’t decide to go Elizabethan on us!) — YUR
Unclerave's Wordy Weblog 
I dont get the answer at all… Wheres the pun?
The gardener uses a rake, and he is a rake, as well. It’s an old word meaning a cad, or a roue, or a letch.
YUR