ENTDECKTE GRUFFT NATUERLICHER GEHEIMNISSE 
Entdeckte grufft natUrlicher geheimnisse. Das ist: Geivisse nicht 
in blcsser speculation bestehende sondem durch viele experimente be- 
wShrte kUnste die landgV.ter mercklich zu rerbessem ••• Nebst einem 
anhang. Zell, H. F* Hoffmann, 1710, 
U. S* Department of Agriculture enters this under Bilderbeck, Chris¬ 
toph Lorenz von (1682-1740), on the authority of Baer, Ant.-Kat, 633, from 
which the book was purchased. This title is not, however. Included among 
the works of Bilderbeck in GHntz, Handb, Landw, Litt., nor can I find other 
good authority for this attribution. The title is entered as anonymous in 
Haller, Bib, Bot, 2:120, with the note; ”Ex Vallemontio excerptum a Fride- 
rico V, Bresslau und Aschaffenburg,” 
Miltitz, Bib, Bot,, col,296, enters the ’’Entdeckte grufft" under Valle- 
mont, as does Burchardt in Der Teutsche ObstgStrtner, 16:125, Miltitz gives 
eds, of 1749 and 1762; Burchardt gives eds, of 1747 and 1762, while Haller 
gives eds, of 1710, 1717, and 1752, 
Haller’s note is explained by the fact that Vallemont’s vrork, "Curio- 
sitez de la nature et de I'art sur la v4g4tation" (1st ed,, Paris, 1705), 
was translated into German by Ferdinand von Bressler und Aschenburg, whose 
preface is dated "Bresslau, den 23, Oct, 1708," This translation, entit¬ 
led; "Merckwlirdigkeiten der natur und der kunst" (Bresslau, Durch die Bau- 
mannisohen erben verlegt; druokts Johann Jancke, 1708), is in the library 
of the H, Y, Botanical Garden, 
The "Entdeckte grufft" (1710) has been compared with a copy of Valle- 
mont's "Curiositez de la nature et do I’art sur la vSg^tation", published 
Paris, 1711, and perhaps quite different from the original one. The pref¬ 
ace of the former begins with a paragraph or two from Vallemont, and pro¬ 
ceeds to announce a "Grosso geheimniss von vermehrung dee koms, vde sol- 
ches wUrcklioh versucht und practisiret werden", giving references to St, 
Paul (Epist. Rom, cap,I, v.20), to agriculture of Isaac (Genesis, cap,24, 
v,36), and to St. Theresa (L, de la Voye part, & L. du Chateau do I’ame 
cap,2, habit,9) 
