The three following sorts are more difficult to preserve, requiring 

 a stony soil and cold exposure. 



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

 border soon after they are ripe, managing the plants as in the first 

 sort. 



The last sort, when cultivated for the purpose of salads, should 

 be sown in the latter end of summer, or beginning of autumn, in an 

 open place where it is to grow; the plants being afterwards thinned 

 out by hoeing, and kept clean from weeds; when they will be fit 

 for use very early in the spring while quite 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 SIBIRICA. 



SIBERIAN SPEEDWELL. 



Tins genus comprises plants of the herbaceous perennial and 

 shrubby kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Diandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Personate. 



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

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

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

 flat, with ovate segments; the lowest narrower, the segment opposite 

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

 ascending: anthers oblong: the pistillum is a compressed germ: 

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

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

 two-celled, four-valved: the seeds numerous, roundish. 



