codlin

• “Jack; "but what had that to do with hot codlins: a codlin is a fish, is it not?”

  Willis the Pilot

• “This is the imago or mature form of the insect known as the codlin-moth (it lives on codlins or apples).”

  The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1

• “The window-shutters were not yet closed, and the fire — and candle-light within radiated forth upon the thick bushes of box and laurestinus growing in clumps outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hanging about in various distorted shapes, the result of early training as espaliers combined with careless climbing into their boughs in later years.”

  Under the Greenwood Tree

• “Sir Griffith was a brisk, apple-cheeked man of forty or thereabouts, very fluent of speech in somewhat uncertain English, with fewer ideas in his head than there are pips in a codlin, but what there were of them singularly clear and precise.”

  The Yeoman Adventurer

• “The treatment recommended for codlin-moths is also effective for the tent-caterpillar.”

  Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use

• “The codlin-moth lays its eggs on the fruit about the time of the falling of the blossoms, and the larvae when hatched eat into the young fruit and cause the ordinary wormy apples and pears.”

  Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use

• “The insects most commonly attacking the apple are the codlin-moth, tent-caterpillar, canker-worm and borer.”

  Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use

• “This kindness was because the Caddagat orchard had been too infested with codlin moth for grannie to save any last season.”

  My Brilliant Career

• “_ -- The codlin-moth lays the eggs that produce the pinkish caterpillar which causes a large proportion of wormy apples and pears.”

  Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)

• “Among the insects most commonly found on the apple tree are the codlin-moth, canker-worm, and tent-caterpillar.”

  Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)

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