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 first groweth as well in the Provence of France as in divers places of Italy, and in many places of Graecia, and in Candy also, and some other places; but no where so plentifull as in the Isle of Chio now called Sio, from whence cometh the best Gum, which is clear, splendent, white, and brittle; other places yield∣ing not so much nor so good, that of Candy being of a yellowish colour and bit∣ter taste The inhabitants of Chios tend, pruine, and manure it with as great pains and care, as others do their Vines, which goeth beyond them in the profit of the Gum, and send it into all parts of the World. The second and third kind grow in Peru, and the Westindies. They flowre in April, and the berries ripen in September; and the Mastick is gathered about the time that Grapes be▪