 To these contributions he added his own "Aphorismorum medicinalium cum theoreticorum tum practicorum sectiones VIII" of 1589, a reference work of the collected medical knowledge of his age.As a botanist, Scholz was particularly interested the newly introduced exotic plants from Asia and Americas, which he cultivated from 1587 in prodigious quantities in his garden in Breslau.He commissioned the Breslau painter Georg Freyberger to produce an illustrated catalog; he wrote two plant inventories, which were printed in 1587 and 1594 in Breslau.