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THE ALO'YSIA CITRIODORA. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
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ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE ALO'YSIA CITRI'ODORA, OR LEMON 
PLANT, OUT OF DOORS.—Ev Sage. 
In perusing page 473 of the Horticultural Register, I find that your 
querist “Suffolk” invokes your numerous Readers to take up their 
pen to unfold to him the mystery of growing the Aloysia citriodora of 
Ortega and Loudon (the Verbena triphylla of L’Heritier and Don,) 
vulgarly called the Lemon plant, in the open air. I therefore take 
up my pen in answer to his solicitations, to disclose to him a method 
of propagating and cultivating this odoriferous production of the 
Chilian clime. 
The soil this plant requires is composed of the same ingredients, 
and in the same proportion as I recommended for the Salvia splen- 
dens, page 437. 
Propagation —In the months of May and June choose a warm 
shady border for the purpose of striking; take out the soil about 
six inches deep, and fill it with the compost; then take young cut¬ 
tings off your old stools, displace the leaves for three or four joints, 
and with a sharp knife cause a slit to pass through the two first 
joints of the cutting which will cause it to strike root much sooner, 
then prick them out, make them quite firm, and give them a good 
watering, covering them close with the hand glass till they begin to 
grow, when they must he hardened to the open air by degrees. 
Cultivation —As soon as the cuttings begin to grow, pinch out 
their hearts and pot them in small pots using the above compost, 
and repotting them as often as they require it in the succeeding 
summer and autumn months, in other respects they must he treated 
as greenhouse plants till the following May, when you must begin 
to prepare your bed or beds; if they are intended to he grown by 
themselves, take out the soil from one foot to one foot six inches 
deep, the width and length may suit your own taste and convenience, 
fill it up rather above level, to allow for settling, with your pre¬ 
pared soil, permit it to settle for a few days, and then proceed to put 
out your plants with their balls entire, two feet apart, firming the soil 
well round them, and giving them a good watering to settle the soil to 
their roots, and as the aspect should be a south one, they should be 
shaded for a few days if the sun is powerful ; they must also be de¬ 
fended from cold nights, by means of hoops and mats or canvass, or 
else they will receive a check from which they seldom or ever reco- 
