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CULTURE OF THE ALOYSIA CITRIODORA 
OUT OF DOORS. 
This plant will grow to the size of a large gooseberry bush in the open borders, 
with very little care and attention. 
1. Let the soil in which it is planted be light sandy loam, and well drained. 
2. Always select a situation sheltered from the north and east or west winds, and 
where the plant can receive the benefit of the sun through the greater part of the day. 
3. If a situation on the open borders so sheltered cannot be obtained, place the 
plants against a wall facing the south, and train them to it. 
4. Just when nature begins to show an inclination to push her buds, cut down 
the last summer’s wood to three or at most four eyes ; by so doing the plants will 
be kept within due bounds for many years, and at the same time will produce 
abundance of young wood either for propagation or to mix with nosegays. 
5. In severe weather during winter it will be necessary to fix a mat round the 
plant, after the manner of matting currants in summer, except that the mat in this 
case must also cover the root, which should be previously mulched with a little 
half-rotted dung. If the plant be trained against a wall, this covering can very 
easily be effected by nailing a mat over it. 
6. Propagation. When the young shoots are grown about three, and not on 
any occasion more than four, joints, they may be slipped off from the places where 
they were first started ; take off the leaves half way up or more, then with a sharp 
knife cut a section straight across, just at or below the bottom joint. 
7. The cuttings being thus prepared, plant them in pots filled with equal parts 
of light loam, peat, and sand sifted fine, and place a small bell glass over them if 
convenient, but, if not. they will grow freely without, but do not strike so speedily. 
8. If the pots are placed in the front of a melon or cucumber bed, the heat will 
greatly facilitate their striking ; but when this cannot be had, place the pots under 
a hand-glass out of doors, in rather a shady situation. 
9. For the first week after being put in, let them be carefully shaded from the 
sun by ten o’clock in the morning, and keep them so until four in the afternoon, 
but afterwards gradually increase the quantity of sun until they have struck root. 
10. When rooted, pot them in small pots, or plant them in the open borders, as 
recommended for old plants. 
11. Give them a good supply of water in dry weather during summer, but whilst 
dormant in winter much moisture would materially injure them. 
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