THE SPECTATOR. 



JOSEPH ADDISON. 



Saturday, September 6, 1712. 



An me laudit amabilis 

 Insania ? audire et videor pios 

 Err are per lucos, amcentz 

 Quos et aqucz subeunt et aurcs. HOR. 



SIR : Having lately read your essay on the 

 Pleasures of the Imagination , I was so taken 

 with your thoughts upon some of our English 

 gardens, that I cannot forbear troubling you 

 with a letter upon that subject. I am one, 

 you must know, who am looked upon as an 

 humorist in gardening. I have several acres 

 about my house, which I call my garden, and 

 which a skilful gardener would not know what 

 to call. It is a confusion of kitchen and par- 

 terre, orchard and flower-garden, which lie so 

 mixed and interwoven with one another that if 

 a foreigner who had seen nothing of our coun- 

 try should be conveyed into my garden at his 



