408 ' Cultivation of Tritffles. 



Art. III. A Treanse on the Cultivation of Truffles. By Alexander 

 von Boi-nholz. Translated from the German by Francis Macsall, 

 Esq., of Eppleton, Durham. 



The treatise in question has the following title : — Der Triijffel- 

 bail, oder Aniveisung die schwarzen und nioeissen Tritffeln in Wal- 

 dungen, Lustgebuschcn, und Garten, durch Kunst zu ziehen, wid 

 grosse Anlagen dazu zu maclien. Von Alexander von Bornholz. 

 Quedlinburg und Leipzig, 1825. Bei Gottfried Basse. Its 

 author now^here states that he has actually cultivated truffles, it 

 is however to be presumed, from what he says, that he has ; and 

 I was moreover informed by Count Salm of Vienna, that a per- 

 son in Hungary had, by cultivating them as recommended by 

 M. Bornholz, " made a good thing of it." This was the ex- 

 pression actually used, the conversation being partly carried 

 on in the English language. I was first informed by the count 

 of the existence of this treatise, which, after some search, and 

 with some difficulty, I procured at Vienna. There, however, the 

 treatise was little known. Such was also the case with the treatise 

 on truffle-hunting by V. F. Fischer [Art. I. p. 385.], which the 

 bookseller of whom I got M. Bornholz's treatise remembered 

 he had, but being ignorant of the author's name he could not 

 for some time find it. 



Truffles are found in England, if my information be coi'rect, 

 in Sussex, at or near Goodwood, a seat of the Duke of Rich- 

 mond ; and in Northwood, a wood of about a thousand acres 

 belonging to Lady Newburg, and situate near the parishes of 

 Slindon and Irtham ; also in Kent, at Broome, the seat of Sir 

 Henry Oxenden. In the county of Durham, they are met with, 

 if I mistake not, in Castle-Eden dean, and are to be found in 

 many other parts of England. Truffles grown in England may 

 be bought, both fresh and dried in Covent Garden Market in 

 London, where the fresh ones have this year (1833) been sold 

 at the rate of 10s. [this year, 1837, they were 145., see Market 

 List, p. 384.] per pound. — F. M. 



The Cidtivatioji of Truffles, or Instructions for artificially raising 

 and making large Plantations of Black and White Tru.ffles, in 

 Woods, Shruhheriesyand Gardens. By Alexander von Bornholz. 



Introduction. — Ripe truffles, freshly taken up, are more dif- 

 ferent from those that are dried, dipped in oil, wrapped in 

 waxed paper, or preserved in glasses, which the Italians and 

 French sell us for German gold, than a beautiful Borsdorfer 

 apple is from slices of a dried apple. Nevertheless the best in 

 the woods of Germany are not dug up, and not unfrequently, 

 either from ignorance or the avarice of those that deal in them, 

 bad and useless sorts (such as the swine-truffle) are mixed along 



