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The tliice rullow'mg sorts arc more difliculL lo preserve, requiring 

 a stony soil and cold exposure. 



The; ninlli sort may be raised from seeds sown in a moist shady 

 border soon after they are ri])e, managing the plants as in the first 

 sort. 



Tiie last sort, when eullivaled for the ])urpose of salads, should 

 be sown in tlu^ latter (uul of summer, or beginning of aulumn, in an 

 open place where it is to grow; the ])lanls being afterwards thinned 

 out by hoeing, and ke[)t clean from weeds: when they will be fit 

 for use very early in the spring wdiile (|uile young. 



All the sorts except the last may be introduced in the borders, 

 for the purpose of variety, and most of them continue many years. 



The last is used as an early spring salad herb. 



2. VERONICA S 1131 RICA. 



SIBERIAN SPEEDWELL. 



Tins genus comprises plants of llie herbaceous perennial and 

 shrubby kinds. 



It belonu's to the class and order Diandiia Munogi/ii/a, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Personatcc. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a four-parted perianth, 

 permanent: segments lanceolate, acute: the corolla one-pelalied, 

 wheel-shaped: tube length almost of the calyx: border four-parted, 

 tlal, with ovate segments; the lowest narrower, the seguicut opposite 

 to this wider: the stamina have two filaments, narrower- at botlom, 

 ascending: anthers oblong: the j)istillum is a compressed germ: 

 style filiform, length of the stamens, declined : stigma simple : 

 the pericarpium is an obcordale capsule, compressed at the top, 

 two-celled, f bur-valved : the seeds numerous, roundish. 



