I notice that The American Garden is quoted as saying that sweet corn grown on the south side of Long Island is not as good as the same variety grown elsewhere ; the difference being attributed to climatic conditions (see American Garden, Feb., p. 118). While I have no doubt that climate has something to do with the quality of sweet corn, yet I think the nature of fertilizer and cultivation has vastly more to do with it. I have raised sweet corn for a number of years at Pear-sail's, L. I. I have planted nearly all the new varieties, but have found nothing better than the famous Squan-tum or Potter's and Stowell's Evergreen. Either of. these varieties grow to perfection on Long Island. I have eaten the Squantum at the famous Rhode Island shore dinners and other varieties in various parts of the country, but I have never eaten sweeter or better flavored corn than I have raised myself on Long Island. I have noticed that certain conditions of the atmosphere, especially during the warm, damp, muggy nights of August, seem to have much to do with the quality of sweet corn. It may be that the sea fogs of the coast at Marblehead, Squantum and the south side of Long Island, may favorably effect the quality of sweet corn.

The best sweet corn I have ever eaten was "nubbins" from a standard late planting. The variety was, I think the old-fashioned Minnesota. - J. H. Griffith, Barring-ton, R. I.

The Luculla Gratissima, many growers complain of difficulty in propagating. It is the handsomest and most fragrant of all greenhouse shrubs. As a rule, imported plants are very weak and spindling, giving no chance to obtain cuttings. The first thing to be done with them, says a successful grower, is to plant them out in a bed, in some cool house; a camellia house is just right. There must be plenty of room, for the plants will grow to a height of three feet. Treated in this way, they will soon make abundant growth for stocks. They are propagated by cuttings. Unsuccessful growers complain that these will not strike. My authority says they will strike as easily as geraniums, but the plant has one peculiarity ; the cuttings must be put in the propagating bed just as soon as they are taken off the plant. If they are allowed to lie around, even for a short time, they will not strike. Anyone who has seen a big luculia, with its masses of exquisitely fragrant pink flowers, will wish that the simplicity of its culture were better understood. - E. L. T.