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 Forme.

The tame Pine groweth very great and high, with a thick reddish coloured bark, spreading large arms towards the top, and they again divided into lesser, whereon are set by couples together at a joynt or knot all along the branches, close one unto another, long narrow or almost round, hard and sharp pointed pale green Leaves, abiding continually on the young branches, and not falling a∣way but from the elder: this beareth certain small yellow Catkins in the Winter which fall away in the Spring as the Cones increase; the fruit or Cones, that are somewhat long and found grow very high on the branches, and are somewhat greater then in any of the other sorts, composed of sundry hard brown woody Scales, lying close one unto and upon another, which when they open of them∣selves or are caused by the heat of the fire, do shew within them certain hard shels, which contain in each of them, a long and white very sweet kernell, covered with a very thin reddish skin, that is easily rubbed off: the wood hereof is fir∣mer, heavier, and closer grained then of the Firre or Deal, reddish also, and not so short or brittle as that is; and with a kind of moisture about the heart, which slived out into shivers will burn like Torches, and were so used by the Ancients, who called them Ted••.