166 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [chap. vi. 
trodden down or rolled. When attacks are 
apprehended from mice, dried furze is gene¬ 
rally strewed over the peas as soon as they 
are put into the ground, and before they are 
covered with earth; and this is efficacious, 
not only in protecting the peas from their 
enemies, but in keeping enough air about 
them to allow them to vegetate. They 
should then be well watered, and will re¬ 
quire no further care till they come up. 
When they are two or three inches high, 
they should be hoed; that is, the weeds 
which may have sprung up between the 
rows should be hoed up, and the earth drawn 
up to the roots of the peas. When about 
six inches high, they should be staked, with 
two rows of sticks to each row of peas; the 
sticks being about a foot higher than the 
average height of the peas, and care being 
taken never to let them cross at top. 
Late peas only differ in their culture from 
the early crops in having their drills farther 
apart, and in being placed farther apart in 
the drills. A pint of these peas is calculated 
to sow thirty-three yards of rows, and the 
peas of the larger kinds should be from one 
