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 manured Fig-tree groweth plentifully in Italy and Spain, but not without planting: where the fruit being gathered before it be over ripe, is laid in the Sunne to dry that it may be the better to keep all the year after, and is thence transported into other countries: And so are the blew Figs which grow there also; but not so commonly, whose Tree as it is thought came out of Bar∣bary. They bear ripe fruit both in the Spring, and in August or September. We have them in divers Gardens of this Land, but the fruit though many times it ap∣pear before the leaves; yet seldome commeth to perfection, unlesse it be planted under a hot Wall.