CULTUKE OF THE VERBENA TRIPHY'lLA. 649 
some months before for piues, to this I put a third part of decayed 
leaves, I placed a handful of broken potsherds at the bottom of each 
pot to give a good drainage ; water being allowed to stagnate, it 
soon destroys the health of the plant. Orange trees like a humid 
atmosphere. The trunks of those under my care were dry, and had, 
what gardeners term, a hide-bound appearance, which is the case 
with all imported from abroad that I ever saw; to remedy this, I 
tied damp moss round all the trunks from the surface of the pots up 
to the branches, and cut in the young wood to two or three eyes ; I 
then set them in a viner\% in which the temperature was about sixty 
degrees. The moss round their stems I kept constantly damp by 
syringing it every morning ; by these means, together with occa- 
sionally steaming the house, I had the great satisfaction of observing 
the trees prosper, and by the end of July they had made a quantity 
of fine young shoots : I then removed them to the green-house, 
where they matured their wood, where they still remain, in as good 
health as I could wish, and several of them finely in bloom at this 
time. 
I do not admire the practice of purchasing imported orange trees, 
for after all trouble and expense, they often become sickly, disappoint 
the proprietor, and cast reflection on the judgment of the practical 
gardener. If strong, healthy orange trees are wished, the best plan 
I know of is to raise the stock from seeds, and graft or bud them 
when two or three years old ; these will be found more hardy and 
suitable to the climate of Great Britain. When I was gardener to 
Sir Charles Monck, Bart, at Belsay Castle, he had a number of 
trees of his own raising, which were strong, fruitful trees. 
William Grey. 
Alarch 21th, 1832. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
ON THE CULTURE AND PROPAGATION OF THE VERBENA TRI- 
PHY'LLA, OR ALOYSIA CITRIODO'RA, (out of doors.) 
By a Novice. 
Your correspondent Suffolk, page 473, wishes for some of your 
readers to acquaint him with the culture of the verbena out of doors, 
together with its propagation. And as they are both verv simple, 
I, who am but a novice, can j^erhaps give him a little infoima- 
tion on the subject. In a midland county I have had the plea- 
sure of seeing the plant grown nearly to the size of a large 
