AUCH-CHISEL. 
years, been carried on with the utmost zeal and success. He 
has been not only the contemporary', but the intimate friend, 
as well as fellow-worker, wth that most eminent of horticul- 
turists and physiologists, the late president of the Horticultural 
Society, Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. ; who in the latter part 
of his life, when risiting Pitmaston, used to say to Mr. Wil- 
liams, “You have a better climate to work in than I have at 
Downton. I hope you will continue your experiments ; you 
will be able to effect more than I have done. I give up the 
Apple and Pear to you.” 
This Pear is named Auch-Chisel, haring been propagated 
from seeds of the Green Chisel, fertilized by the pollen of the 
Poire d’Auch. The former Pear is chiefly valuable for its har- 
diness, productiveness, and early ripening ; for other qualities 
it is scarcely worth the trouble of cultivating. The Poire 
d’Auch, on the contraiy, is sugary, melting, and high flavoured, 
but later in ripening ; therefore the combination of the qual- 
ities of the Green Chisel with the Poire d’Auch was the desider- 
atum sought by Mr. Williams, and most successfully obtained. 
In size and form this new variety is intermediate between 
its parents ; its eye small and sunk in a deepish narrow hollow, 
surrounded by slight irregular lobes ; the stem half to three- 
quarters of an inch long, inserted in a cavity smaller than that 
of the Poire d’Auch, and indeed sometimes obliterated on one 
side, hereby making an approach to the Green Chisel, the 
stem of which is inserted \rithout any cavity. It has the 
smooth green exterior of its progenitors, and is closely speckled 
with pale nrsset, which sometimes becomes confluent. Its 
flesh is yellowish white, with a little grit, but crrsp, juicy, sug- 
ary, and pleasantly flavoured, somewhat resembling the Jennet. 
It ripens in September, and is a valuable early autumn Pear. 
The tree is of free growth, perfectly healthy, and a great 
bearer. It nearly resembles the Chisel in its upright growth ; 
and, owing to the shortness of the foot-stalks of the fruit, and 
consequent want of elasticity, it is very liable to be blown from 
the tree in high winds. This is much prevented if the branches 
be made pendent, which can be readily done, by cutting away 
the upright leaders, and loading the ends of tlie young lateral 
branches with clay balls. That little active garden robber, the 
Tom-tit, has a great fancy for this fruit, just before it becomes 
ripe ; and, owing to its shoil foot-stalk, it soon falls to the 
ground under the repeated attacks of its beak. The fruit is 
larger when the tree is trained to a wall, but not so highly 
flavoured as when it is grown on a standard. 
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