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He was a native of Scotland ; and his father, the Very Rev. John Skinner, was 

 Dean of Dunkeld and Dunblane, who died at Forfar in 1841, and who was son 

 of Bishop Skinner, Primus of the Episcopal Church of Scotland. The bishop, 

 we believe, wrote the well-known " Reel of Tullochgorum." 



Mr. Skinner, whose death we now record, was not only a Fellow of the Lin- 

 naean and other kindred societies, but was ever ready by his counsel and his 

 purse to aid others who were pursuing the sciences those societies fostered. He 

 advised with Hartweg as to the latter's researches in Mexico ; and he supplied 

 Warscewicz with money at the time of his extreme need, when he had been 

 abandoned by the Belgian Association, which had sent him to South America to 

 collect plants. 



LiLIUM TENUIFOLIUM, L. AURATUM, AND TRITO.MA UVARIA, SeED-SOWING. 



— The seed should be sown early in May in pots or pans, well drained, in a 

 compost of turfy loam, peat, and leaf-mould, with the addition of one-sixth of 

 silver sand. The seeds should be covered with fine soil to a depth equal to the 

 diameter of the seed. The pots should be gently watered, and placed in a hot- 

 bed with a temperature of 70°. When the plants appear, admit air, and harden 

 them off", or remove them to a vinery at work, where they should be placed in 

 a light, airy situation. If there is not a vinery at command, remove them to a 

 greenhouse. Keep them well supplied with water, and in September gradually 

 withhold, discontinuing the supply after October, all but a little now and then 

 to keep the soil moist, but not wet. The iiliums should have the seeds placed 

 so far apart, that they can grow in the pots or pans as sown (an inch will suffice) ; 

 but the tritoma-plants should, when large enough to handle, be potted off" singly 

 in small pots, and the soil in these should be kept moister in winter than for the 

 Iiliums. The Iiliums also should be potted in November, singly, in four-and-a- 

 half inch pots, or three may be planted in a seven-inch pot. They should be 

 kept in a cool greenhouse. — Cottage Gardener. 



Hyacinths done blooming. — After blooming, they should be hardened off, 

 or kept beyond the reach of frost, in an airy, light situation. When all danger 

 of frost is past, they may be planted in the open ground, covering the crowns of 

 the bulbs with two to three inches of soil. Those grown in water are of little 

 or no value after blooming, and those forced in pots are not worth forcing a 

 second time. 



Culture of Roses in Pots in Greenhouses. — The best roses for green- 

 house culture are the finer varieties of the China and tea-scented ; the latter es- 

 pecially, on account of their peculiar and delightful fragrance ; but the Bourbons 

 and hybrid perpetuals must be included. The following varieties I have found 

 good : — 



China. — Madame Breon, Mrs. Bosanquet, Triomphe de Gand, Prince Charles. 

 Henri Cinq, La Seduisante, Infidelites de Lisette, Louis Philippe, Napoleon, 

 Clara Sylvain (generally classed with the Tea-scented), and Fabvier. 



