A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

OF VEGETABLES.
apple tree, love ; the palm, conjugal love, &c. which are to be considered more
properly in emblems and devices, than in armories.
The land of Judea was marked out of old by the palm tree, because many such
trees grew there, and many other countries have the like mark, which are to be
found in the arms of these countries.
With us the M'GREGORS, because their lands were overspread with fir trees,
carried, for arms, argent, a fir tree growing out of a mount in base vert, surmounted
of a sword bend-ways, supporting by its point an imperial crown, proper, in the
them to the
dexter chief canton, to perpetuate a piece of special service done crown. W. MS.
by
The FARQJJHARSONS, and many others, upon the same account, carry fir trees
growing out of mounts, seeded, proper, as in the second and third quarters of the
achievements of Farquharson of Invercauld, of which before.
These of the surname of WOOD, in old evidents and writs, anciently named with
us De Bosco, which signifies the same, carry trees, relative to their names. In a
charter of King William to the town of Inverness, in the second year of that king's
reign, Willielmus de Bosco, there. And in the
Cancellarius Regis, and Hugo de Bosco are witnesses
charters of Alexander II. Thomas de Bosco is often to be met
wifh. Had. Col.
WOOD of Colpny, an old family in the shire of Aberdeen, now extinct, carried
azure, an oak tree eradicate or. Font's MS.
WOOD of Bonnyton, now the principal family of the name, azure, an oak tree,
growing out of a mount in base, proper, between two cross croslets fitche or ; the
last being a part of the arms of Tullochy of Bonnyton, which the family has been
in use to carry for marrying the heiress, with whom these lands came to the fa-
mily.
Sir JOHN WOOD of Bonnyton, Baronet, carries the same arms, recorded in our
New Register, with the badge of Nova Scotia, as baronet ; and for crest, a savage
from the loins upwards, holding a club erected in his right hand, and wreathed
about the head and middle w'th laurel, proper; supporters, two savages, each
having a batton erect in their hands, and wreathed about the head and middle as
-the former.
WOOD of Balbigno, azure, an oak tree growing out of a mount in base or, and
to one of its branches are fastened two keys azure, by strappings gules, for the
office of Thane of Fettercairn : Which lands, with the jurisdiction, belongs now
to Mr John Ogilvie, advocate, descended of Ogilvie of Innerquharity, of whom
before.
WOOD of Largo, azure, an oak tree growing out of a mount in base or, between
two ships under sail argent, as Admiral to King James III. and IV. under whose
reigns he defeat the English at sea. King James III. gave to Andrew Wood,
Master of his Majesty's Yellow Kervil, the lands of Largo in wadset, and in the
year 1482, he got a grant of them heritably and irredeemably, in consideration of
his good services ; whose issue-male continued in possession of the lands of Largo
until the reign of King Charles I. John Wood, a cadet of Largo, founded an
Charles II. near to the House of
hospital for fifteen old men, in the reign of King
Largo. Sir Robert Sibbald's History of Fife.
WOOD of Craig, azure, an oak tree acorned, growing out of a mount in base or,
a hunting-horn sable, stringed gules, hanging upon one of the branches, all within
u bordure ingrailed of the second. P. MS.
ALEXANDER WOOD of Grangehaugh, descended of the family of Bonnyton,
crgent, an oak tree growing out of the base, proper, between two cross croslets
fitcht-d fi-zurt; all within a bordure invected of the last ; crest, an oak slip fruc-
: tuated, proper motto, Diu virescit. N. R.
These whose names end with Wood, as Spottiswood, Calderwood, Carvewood,
Shorsewood, Blackwood, carry trees or branches of them, relative to the name.
SPOTTISWOOD of that Ilk, a good old family in the shire of Berwick, argent, on a
cheveron gules, between three oak trees eradicate vert, a boar's head couped of
the field ; the same in the Lyon Register, recorded for Mr Alexander Spottiswood
of Crumstain, representer of the family of Spottiswood^ crest, a wolf's head couped,
proper : motto, Pathr ut potiar.