Entdeckte grtifft 
(Cent* p.2) 
The first two.chapters of the "Entdeckte grufft" are on means of mul¬ 
tiplying the productivity of grains and application of the method to other 
plants* Cap.iii (p,55-80), ”Von dem salpeter" &c*, is chiefly from Valle- 
mont, chap.vi (p.159-201), ”Le nitre est le sel de feconditS" &c. Cap.iv 
(p*81-88), "Von denen sicfften, deren nutzen" &c. is from Vallemont, chap. 
V (p.132-140). Cap.v (p.88-100), "Wie solche sSffte im gemeinen leben, imd 
sonderlich in der medicin gar heilsam su gebrKuchen" is also from Vallemont, 
chap.v (p.141-168). Cap.vi (p.101-120), "Von der palingenesis" &c. is from 
Vallemont, chap.x (p.260-300), "Le phenix vfg4tal" &c. 
As already noted, the Dept* of Agriculture copy of; Vallemont may be a 
garbled one. It has a sub-title: "Ou l*on voit Le Secret de la multiplica¬ 
tion du B16, & les mpyens d’augmenter considdrablement le revenu des biens 
de la campagne", but I find little of this in the text. Possibly the first 
two chapters of the "Entdeckte grufft" are based on matter which was fovind 
in the ox*iginal edition of Vallemont but omitted from that of 1711. In this 
edition the first chapter is a eulogy of the joys of gardening, and chapters 
2-4 are on the physiology of plants, with some of the science of that period, 
but a tendency to stress the miraculous rather than the normal. Chapters 6, 
6, and 10 are reproduced in "Entdeckte grufft", iii-vi. Chapters 7-9 are on 
the curiosities of vegetation. Chap.11 treats of a method of starting cut¬ 
tings in water, and concludes with a letter from J. Ligon, the King's botan¬ 
ist, to M. de la Malemaison, governor of Guadeloupe, dated Paris, April 1, 
1708, and therefore an addition to the first edition of 1706. Chap.12 dis¬ 
cusses the philosopl^ of this principle of growing plants in water as knovm 
to the old philosophers and among the learned savants of recent times. 
No detailed comparison has been me.de between the "Entdeckte grufft" and 
Bressler Und Aschenburg's German version of Vallemont. It may be the former 
was directly compiled from the latter, possibly by Bilderbeck, or possibly 
by Bressler himself. It may also be mentioned that the publisher of this 
1710 edition of "Entdeckte grufft", H. F. Hoffmann of Zell, is connected with 
some other books of doubtful antecedents. 
(MFV/-April 1938) 
