Olive tree

Olive-tree

Olive-tree, (fr. olivier). The tree is occasionally borne, but more frequently slips and branches of it, the latter especially in the dove's mouth(q.v.). The fruit seems only to occur in French arms.

Argent, on a mount in base an olive-tree proper--OLIVIER, co. Beds.

Or, a fesse gules between three live branches proper--ROUNDELL, co. York.

Or, two olive branches in saltire vert--VANHATTON, London.

Argent, a fesse azure, two eagles displayed in chief and in base through an annulet gules a slip of olive and another of palm in saltire proper--KENNAWAY, co. Devon: Baronetcy, 1791.

Argent, on a pile azure, a dove close bearing in her beak an olive branch proper; on a chief sable a cross potent between two escallops of the first--GRAHAM, Bp. of Chester, 1848.

Argent, on a bend azure three doves of the first with olive branches in their mouths proper--THOMASON, co. Chester.

D'argent, a trois olives de sinople--DE BREHIER, Bretagne.