I notice editorial remark below notice of M. M. Vilmorin's work, "The Vegetable Garden," about the American treatment of Indian corn : "Possibly they are so treated, but I have not so seen, and it must be very local." I know of no section but this; but here it is one of our most prized and used vegetables next to cucumbers and young musk-melons (here called "Mangoes") for ajax pickling. We plant purposely pop-corn to obtain perfect miniature ears, which, culled as soon as grains are formed and before they begin to harden, are toothsome indeed. Spartanburg, S. C.