186 LIQUORICE. 
these is by bottling them, and another by drying them 
in an oven, and afterwards keeping them in paper bags ; 
but none of the modes have been attended with com- 
plete success. 
Field peas are sown about March or April, and suc- 
ceed best in light, rich soils. They are generally con- 
sidered an uncertain crop ; but this is owing, in a great 
degree, to want of due attention to their culture. 
In common with most other seeds of this class, peas 
yield a nutritive food to persons of strong stomachs. 
When boiled iu a fresh or green state, they are both 
wholesome and agreeable ; and, when ripe and ground 
into meal, they are peculiarly serviceable for the fat- 
tening of swine. The flour of peas is not unfrequently 
mixed by bakers amongst that of wheat for bread ; but 
bread made of this flour alone is heavy and unwhole- 
some. Three parts of rye-flour and one of ground 
peas are said to yield a palatable and nourishing 
bread. Peas that are freed from their husks, and split 
in mills constructed for the purpose, are used for soup. 
The haulm or straiv of field peas, if saved in favour- 
able seasons, affords not only an excellent fodder for 
working horses, but is also an useful food for horses, 
cattle, and sheep. 
It has been presumed that the everlasting pea, which 
is commonly grown as an ornamental flower in our 
gardens, would be an advantageous green food for 
horses and cattle. 
201. LIQUORICE is the root of a perennial plant (Gly- 
cyrrhiza glabra), with winged leaves, and purplish butterfly- 
shaped flowers, which grows wild in the south of Europe, and is 
cultivated near Pontefract in Yorkshire, Worksop in Not' 
tinghamshire, and God-aiming in Surrey, and by many gardeners 
in the vicinity of London. 
The stalks of the liquorice-plant are usually four or Jive feet 
high. The leaves are icinged, and the leaflets egg-shaped, with 
an odd one at the extremity. The flowers grow in long spikes 
from the junction of the leaves and branches. The roots are 
long, round, tough, of brown colour externally, and yellow 
within. 
