[…] the Ambret; which Pear, though it neither grows to be so large in substance or size, as large Les Chasseries, yet bears more in number, comes sooner into bearing, tastes better in the mouth, and is commonly a long laster.

They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.

a sexfid calyx or nectary

But well he knew his teeming pangs were vain, Till Midwife Dryden eas’d his labouring Brain;