Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles ...

The Places and Time.

The two first are commonly sowen in Gardens, yet it is said likewise that they grow by high way-sides, and in untilled and barren ground; but I suppose that is meant only of the wild sorts, though Gerard affirme it of those of the Garden. The two first of Endive which are the fifth and sixth in the Catalogue of the Kinds▪ are also Inhabitants of the Garden, and no other place that I can find; If it be sown in the Spring, it quickly cometh up to Flower, seedeth in harvest▪ and afterwards dyeth; but if it be sown in July, it remaineth till Winter, and then if it be taken up by the rootes, and suffered to lye two houres, till it be so tough that it may be wrapped very close together; and afterwards buryed in the Earth with the rootes upward it is called Whited Endive, and may be taken up at convenient times, and used in Sallets all Winter. The sorts of Wild-Endive being the seaventh and eighth grow wild in sundry places in England, upon untilled barren grounds especially in chalky and stony places, flowring in August. The ninth and tenth are found almost in every place, and Flower almost at all times, but especially in March, if the cold weather hinder them not.