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 Temperature.

Both the white and red Roses are cooling and drying, yet the white is taken to exceed the red in both those properties, but is ••eldom used inwardly in any Medicine. The Red as Galen saith, hath a watery substance in it, and a warm joyned with two other qualities, that is, an astringent and a bitter. The yel∣low Chives or threds in the middle: as also the nails (which when any Syrup or Conserve is to be made, are to be cut away) do binde more then the Rose it self, and are more drying also. Mesue sheweth, that the Rose is cold in the first Degree, and dry in the second, compounded of divers parts or substances, which yet may be separated namely, a watery mean substance▪ and an earthly drying, an airy substance, likewise sweet and aromatical, and an hot also whereof com∣eth the bitterness, the redness, perfection and form. The bitterness in the Roses, when they are fresh, especially the juyce purgeth Choler, and watry humours; but being dryed, a••d that heat that caused the bitterness, being consumed, they have a stopping, and astringent power. Those also that are not full blown, do both cool, and bind more then those that are full blown, and the white Roses more then the red.