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1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. ii. f. 35 Garden wormes [It. lombrichi] ketche Flies.

1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth (front matter) Helpes againste Scorpions, Todes, Garden myce, Weasels, and all other beasts.

1584 T. Chaloner Shorte Disc. Nitre f. 17^v Temper Nitre, with garden Snayles stamped shelles and all, such as feede on hearbes hot and drie.

1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 18 Gather great Garden-Wormes.

a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 231 For I have observed these two last dry springs, that there has been no soft garden snails to be found abroad.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 173 The Garden-Mouse is an Animal that digs the Earth like a Mole.

1746 Museum 7 June 206 My Garden-Ants had two Resorts: one which seemed to be their Dwelling, and another their Store-house.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 3 This is the garden-snail, that carries its box upon its back.

1842 ‘Piscator’ Pract. Angler ii. 111 The garden worms..are small worms of somewhat a flesh colour cast, inclining to pink above the knot.

1862 Cultivator June 184/1 My present purpose is to write of an intruder, which is in many gardens extremely troublesome and vexatious... I refer to the garden mole.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. 306 The garden birds sang down the setting sun.

1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite i. 36 You waited a tram by the Windmill Steps, it came showding and banging up from the Station, green like a garden slug.

1982 Agric. Hist. 56 546 Thomas Hill..wrote of the use of rhodophanes (oleander) to kill field and garden mice and rats.

2002 N.Z. Herald 5 Mar. d4/2 Huhu grubs, wild pork and venison, sheep brains and garden snails are on the menu for the Wild Foods Festival.

2008 Independent 22 May (Extra section) 10/4 Making compost from organic waste has long relied on garden worms.