EXPRESSION IN ARCHITECTURE. 



By these processes a thorough metamorphosis has taken place. The growth of both new 

 wood and grafts have been extraordinary, while the foliage whicVi before was small and 

 sickly, and usuall}'^ fell off at mid-summer, has in every way changed; becoming large, 

 beautifully green and full of vigor, while their neighbors on the other side of the/<;ncc, 

 untouched by art, and left to nature's skill, are denuded prematurely of their foliage and 

 seared by neglect. 



From the impetus given their growth by the stimulating cultivation they have received, 

 the crop in quality — particularly in numbers — this season is but small, while the fruit 

 itself has become entirely changed in all its characteristics. Before, no specimen could be 

 recognized — while now from amid the ruin, we find the Porter, Ribstone Pippin, Golden 

 Reinette, Golden Sweeting, Swaar, Twenty Ounce, Detroit Red, and other varieties in 

 the perfection of size, form and color! 



From forty trees, some of which bore but a few specimens, thirty barrels of picked 

 fruit have been marketed, reserving some thirty bushels for home use. 



Thus while we hear of various persons cutting down old apple orchards and delight- 

 ing in the blazing fire that does not " snap," I feel amply repaid for the expense and la- 

 bor in the successful experiments I have thus made in the saving of what was deemed 

 useless cumbrances, and producing therefrom a balance fully equal to twenty dollars each. 



It is far easier to cut down and despoil a tree, than to replace one. So long as the tree 

 is not radically diseased and rotten, but simply neglected, moss covered, and unpruned — 

 its fruit in the mean time degenerated until all its characteristics of size, form, color, and 

 flavor are changed, such trees may by judicious methods be so restored as not only to be 

 profitable in their own fruit, but as stocks for grafting, forming if desirable entirely new 

 heads. 



Already have some of my grafts (two years old) began to bear, while all have taken 

 such start that in a few seasons the whole tops will be blossoming with the Northern Spy, 

 Wagener, Melon, Baldwin and other valuable kinds. Thus assuredly, aside from pre- 

 sent pleasure and profit, ten years of time has been gained. 



Yours truly, "W. R. Coppock. 



Longsight Place, near Buffulo, Kov. 17, 1851. 



EXPRESSION IN ARCHITECTURE. 



FROM THE LONDON BUILDER.— BY H. S. 



Some are of opinion that the beauty of the human face consists entirely of expres- 

 sion; and in truth the charm of an agreeable countenance seems to arise from thecapabili- 

 ty of the features to reveal mental and moral beauty; and if expression be not the entire, 

 it is at least the soul of beauty. Mere sensuous grace is perhaps as unimportant in ar- 

 chitecture, which is little else than a lifeless mass if genius infuse not this spirit into it; 

 while if it breathe the idea of the designer we are enchained by its significance and forget 

 the inferiority or the entire absence, as it may be, of abstract beauty. Volumes of thought 

 and feeling flash from the eye, and the various affections of the mind exert an influence 

 upon the permanent form of the countenance and impart to it their own peculiar charac- 

 teristics : could we have a better illustration of the diversitj'- of sentiment which should 

 from different buildings according to the variety of their original and destined pur- 



