Uath or huath — the ancient Gaelic and Irish name — has 

 several significations ; but the root seems to be hu (Celtic), that 

 which pervades. Welsh : huad, that which smells or has a 

 scent {hiiadgu, a hound that scents). "The name hawthorn 

 is supposed to be a corruption of the Dutch hoeg, a hedge-thorn. 

 Although the fruit is generally called a haw, that name is derived 

 from the tree which produces it, and does not, as is frequently 

 supposed, take its name from the fruit it bears." — Jones. Haw- 

 thorn may only be a corruption of hiiad-draen, scented thorns. 

 The badge of the Clan Ogilvie. 



Pyrus (from peren, Celtic for pear). Latin : pynini. Armoric : 

 per. Welsh : peren. French : poire. 



Pyrus communis — Wild pear. Gaelic : craohh pheumin fiad- 

 hain {pein\ the fruit), the wild pear-tree. 



Pyrus malus— " Mel or mal, Celtic for the apple, which the 

 Greeks have rendered ixrjXov, and the Latins vialus^ — Don. 

 AVelsh : afal. Anglo-Saxon : cepl. Norse : apal, apple. Gaelic : 

 uhhal ; craob/i ubhal fiadhaijì^ the wild apple-tree. 



" Do mheasan milis cul^hraidh 

 Nan jtbhinii 's 'nam /«vc;-. "' — M'DoXAi.n. 



Thy sweet and fragrant fruits, 

 Apples and pears. 



The old form of the word was adhul or abJud. The culture of 

 apples must have been largely carried on in the Highlands in 

 olden times, as appears from lines by Merlin, who flourished in 

 A.D. 470, of which the following is a translation : — 



"Sweet apple-tree loaded with the sweetest fruit, growing in the lonely 

 wilds of the woods of Celyddon (Dunkeld), all seek thee for the sake of thy 

 produce, but in vain ; until Cadwaldr comes to the conference of the ford of 

 Rheon, and Conan advances to oppose the Saxons in their career." 



This poem is given under the name of Afallaiiau, or Orchard, 

 by which Merlin perhaps means Athol — z>., Abhal ox Adhul — 

 which is believed by etymologists to acquire its name from its 

 fruitfulness in apple - trees. Goirteag (from goirt, bitter), the 

 sour or bitter one (the crab - apple). Cicairtagaii (the fruit) ; 

 ci/airt, round, the roundies. Irish : ateirt. 



" 'San m'an Ruadh-aisrigli ah'fhas na cuairtagaii.'' — M'Intyre. 

 It was near the red path where the crab-apples grew. 



Tliis plant is the badge of the Clan Lamont. 



