RESERVE-GROUND. 
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RHAMNUS. 
Res2da luatedla, the Dyer’s weed, 
which is a British plant; and R. 
odorata, for the culture of which, | 
see MIGNIONETTE. 
Reserve-Grounp.—In every gar- | 
den accidents, diseases, and many 
other causes, occasion blanks or 
deformities in beds and borders, and | 
the use of a reserve-ground is to. 
contain a number of growing plants 
that at a moment’s notice can be 
taken up and planted in the place 
of those which have ceased to be 
ornamental or desirable. 
Wher- | 
ever there is a greenhouse, it can | 
hardly be kept in high order without | 
a reserve-grouad, including a pit, 
| however small it may be, is essen- 
tial to the keeping in high order of 
every plot of garden-g -ground, even 
those in front of street- houses, and 
of every garden of plants in pots, 
even those kept in window-sills and 
balconies; secondly, that the re- 
serve-ground must be in an open 
airy situation, not shaded by trees ; 
thirdly. that the herbaceous plants 
planted in the open ground in the re- 
| serve-garden, must be taken up with 
balls of earth, and replanted twice 
or thrice a year, and the shrubs 
once a year; and fourthly, that 
a pit or frame in the reserve-ground | where there is a choice of soil, that 
for striking cuttings, and bringing of the reserve-ground should be of 
forward plants to ‘supply the place | a loamy nature, such as will adhere 
of those which are no longer orna-| to the roots of the plants, and never 
mental in the greenhouse ; ‘and par- | 
ticularly for forcing bulbs, and 
bringing 
alsams, Schizanthus, &c., which | 
are exceedingly ornamental when | 
in flower, but without showy foli- 
age at every other season. 
extent, must bear some relation to 
the extent and the character of the 
garden which it is intended to sup- 
ply. The smallest residence should 
have a few square yards of reserve- | 
pit. in an open | 
airy situation, but concealed from | 
the ornamental parts of the grounds; | 
and residences of twenty or thirty | 
ground, including 2 
acres in extent, will require several 
pits, 
an acre as reserve-ground. Where 
there is a walled kitchen- garden, 
the reserve-ground may very conve- 
niently be placed adjoining the 
frame or forcing-ground, or form 
part of it; and in places so small 
as to have no kitchen-garden, a 
concealed glade, open to the south, 
with or without asmall pit or frame, 
will still be necessary. The grand 
points respecting a reserve-ground, 
which it is rable to impress on 
an amateur gardener, are, first, that 
forward annuals, such as/ 
The re- | 
serve-ground, therefore, in point of | 
and the sixth or fourth part of | 
of sand, which will drop away from 
them. Where there is no reserve- 
garden, there is no possible way by 
which even a street-garden, or the 
pots on a window-sill, can be kept 
always in the highest order, but by 
having recourse to the commercial 
gardener. 
Rest-HAaRRow.—See Ono'nis. 
Raa’unus.— Riramnicee.— The 
Buckthorn. Handsome deciduous 
and evergreen shrubs; some of 
which almost attam the size and 
appearance of small trees, and others 
are procumbent shrubs only fitted 
for rockwork. They are all how- 
ever distinguished by a stiff upright 
manner of growth, and numerous 
strong thorns, from which they de- 
rive their name of Buckthorn. The 
flowers are generally small and not 
ornamental, but the berries are very 
much so; and the evergreen kinds 
|are very valuable in shrubberies, 
from their hardiness and free habit 
of growth. The Alaternus (Riam- 
nus alatérnus,) is particularly val- 
uable, because it bears coal smoke, 
and the confined air of towns better 
than most other ev 
Rhémnus cathérticus, the Purg- 
ing Buckthorn, is a deciduous shrub 
