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 by Jim Brown.
-Old Proteus, God of the Sea Appeared in countless guises. So botanists bestowed his name Upon a group of plants that came in myriad shapes and sizes, VX From prostrate shrub to noble tra-
+Old Proteus, God of the Sea\\
-The Waratah and. Banksia Are of this happy breed., Wild Parsley, too (Loma,tia) And Honey Flower - LaMbertia -
+Appeared in countless guises,\\
-With Mountain Devil's head for seed: And needle-armoured Hakea.
+So botanists bestowed his name\\
-Eight score Grevillias are found,
+Upon a group of plants that came\\
-With "toothbrush" or with "spider" flowers In scarlet, pink and. grey and green: While golden epaulettes are seen On Silky Oak that proudly towers, Red Laurifolia hugs the ground.
+In myriad shapes and sizes,\\
-Diverse in flower, diverse in fruit. Think of the Geebung's purple grapes, Or Woody Pear - a iough-one - but We eat the Macadamia nut.
+From prostrate shrub to noble tree.\\
-The "Drum Sticks" and the "Cone Seeds" shapes Give common names that truly suit.
-OldProteus,-God of the Sea,
-Your name lives, in this family. Take them away: the bush would be Less of a Wonderland for me.
+The Waratah and Banksia\\
+Are of this happy breed.\\
+Wild Parsley, too (Lomatia)\\
+And Honey Flower - Lambertia -\\
+With Mountain Devil's head for seed:\\
+And needle-armoured Hakea.\\
+Eight score Grevillias are found,\\
+With "toothbrush" or with "spider" flowers\\
+In scarlet, pink and grey and green:\\
+While golden epaulettes are seen\\
+On Silky Oak that proudly towers,\\
+Red Laurifolia hugs the ground.\\
+Diverse in flower, diverse in fruit.\\
+Think of the Geebung's purple grapes,\\
+Or Woody Pear - a tough-one -\\
+But we eat the Macadamia nut.\\
+The "Drum Sticks" and the "Cone Seeds" shapes\\
+Give common names that truly suit.\\
+Old Proteus, God of the Sea,\\
+Your name lives, in this family.\\
+Take them away: the bush would be\\
+Less of a Wonderland for me.\\
 ===== Social Notes for March =====
 by Christine Austin.
 March 21 - That tireless worker, David Cotton, has again produced a series of photographs. Please come and make this another successful evening. I think David would also like you to bring a glass.
 March 28 - This evening is the much publicized. Slide Competition. Remember the A.G.M. on 14/3/79 is the deadline for handing in slides. Limit - 15 slides per person.
+===== A Record for Posterity =====
+Last month Dorothy Butler turned 100. To celebrate her centenary, this famous Australian mountaineer, gastronome, conservationist, raconteur,philanthropist, psychologist, and former leader of Haute Couture in Sydney has for the first time in many years, agreed to give an interview. Her judgments on contemporary society, as seen from  her varied and some say unique life style, should be of interest to all who read this magazine.
+Born in 1879, in the middle of the Simpsons Stoney Desert (her parents at the time were on a Wildflower Collecting Expedition organized by the Universitad de Paraguay); educated at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Barrallier, at the insistence of her adopted Brazilian parents; earned her degrees "cum laude" at the University of Goondowindi and achieved notoriety by her long distance penny-farthing rides in the early part of the century. Her career was always in New South Wales, apart from a short stay in New Zealand where she was a hostess at the Mt.Cook nightclub. Her whole life nowadays is collecting money for her Nudist (Kangaroo Valley) Department, known as the N.K.V.D. to her cronies, and to her memorizing the Works of Count Allesandro Manzoni.
+Q. Mrs. Butler, in your autobiography, you state rather ungrammatically, "If everybody would be a mirror image of me - so much the better for the world to be". Is that why you mostly made friends with people younger than yourself?
+A. Yes, but also the young at heart. All my life I've tried to encourage the coming generation with my uninhibited ways, even though Society sometimes frowned.
+Q. Is that after you cycled from Mt Kosciusko to Government House, Sydney, to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee?
-A, RECORD FOR POMMY.
-Last month Dorothy-Butler turned 100. To this famous Australian mountaineer, gastronome, conservationist, rabonteur and former leader of has for the first time in many years, agreed to judgments on dontemporary society, as seen from unique life style, should be of interest to all
-^celebrate her centenary, philanthropist, pschologist, Haute Couture in Sydney, give an interview. Her her varied and some say who read this magazine.
-Born in 18792 in the middle of the Simpsons Stoney Desert (her parents at the time were on a Wildflower Collecting Expedition organized by the Universitad de Paraguay); educated at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Barrallier, at the insistance of her adopted Brazilian parents; earned her degrees "cum laude" at the University of Goondowindi and achieved notoriety by her long distance penny-farthing rides in the early part of the century. Her career was always in New South Wales, apart from a short stay in New Zealand where she was a hostess at the Mt.Cook nightclub. Her whole life nowadays is collecting money for her Nudist (Kangaroo Valley) Department, known as the W.K.V.D. to her cronies, and to her memorizing the Works of Count Allesandro Eanzoni.
-Q. Mrs. Butler, in your autobiography, you state rather _ungrammatically, "If everybody would be a mirror image of me - so much the better for the world to be". Is that why you mostly made friends with people younger than yourself?
-A. Yes, but alsb the young at heart. All My-life I've tried to encourage the-coming generation with my uninhibited ways, even though Society sometimes frot3ned.
-Q. Is that after you cycled from MtXosciusko to Government House, Sydney, to celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee?
 A. Indeed it was. A lovely Garden Party, and I was wearing my pale blue linen frock at the time, with the embroidery at the neckline.
 Q. Wasn't there a painting done of you wearing it? I remember seeing it in the Melbourne National Gallery.
 A. I never forgave Norman Lindsay after that. So embarrassing that I had to give up Sunday School teaching.
 Q, Dorothy..........
 A. Mrs. Butler, please.
 Q. I'm sorry, Mrs. Butler. There is a persistent story that you climbed the Matterhorn barefooted. Obviously exaggerated, but could you clarify haw such a rumour started?
-A. Such a ridiculous rumours How could it be believed? What really happened was that half way up a cliff face while I was being belayed by
-Whymper, both my shoe laces came undone and my tennis shoes simply fell off. I finished the climb in socks - definitely NOT barefooted.
+A. Such a ridiculous rumours How could it be believed? What really happened was that half way up a cliff face while I was being belayed by Whymper, both my shoe laces came undone and my tennis shoes simply fell off. I finished the climb in socks - definitely NOT barefooted.
 Q. I see. How did you begin mountaineering?
 A. I always loved to climb. Indeed to cross the flooded river to the Primary School, I had to climb the telegraph poles and go hand in hand over the wires. I never got electrocuted. Never. Not even once.
-Q. Probably due to the metres being telephone. A. Don't phones run on electricity?
+Q. Probably due to the metres being telephone.
+A. Don't phones run on electricity?
 Q. I'm not sure myself. Let's proceed to the next question. Your candle-lit dinners at Wahroonga became the talk of the North Shore. Is that where you refused to let Madame Melba sing, saying she was not worth a "zac"?
-A. I'd been up all night preparing Creme Caramels and the Canard a l'Orange (after all I had spent tm terms at Escoffier), and she had the audacity to say it tasted like muck. Of course -I didn't realise that. she meant "mukke", Icelandic for Heaven. She died before I found out. And here let me add that recently, on a trip to Lilydale outside Melbourne, I visited. her grave and sang "Ten Green Bottles". I felt I owed it to her.
-Q A remarkable gesture. Maybe the Womens Weekly will do a feature on it.
+A. I'd been up all night preparing Creme Caramels and the Canard a l'Orange (after all I had spent two terms at Escoffier), and she had the audacity to say it tasted like muck. Of course -I didn't realise that. she meant "mukke", Icelandic for Heaven. She died before I found out. And here let me add that recently, on a trip to Lilydale outside Melbourne, I visited. her grave and sang "Ten Green Bottles". I felt I owed it to her.
-A. I appeared on the wryer of TIME magazine once. 1923 or thereabouts. Q. I never knew that.
+Q. A remarkable gesture. Maybe the Womens Weekly will do a feature on it.
+A. I appeared on the cover of TIME magazine once. 1923 or thereabouts.
+Q. I never knew that.
 A. Yes, as best dressed Woman of the Year. I always believed in the old maxim "Money maketh man but clothes maketh woman". Don't you?
-Ct I think, from memory, that you have the wording wrong.
-A. Young man, don't you have any respect for the,ageds Nothing escapes from my lips that can't be quoted verbatim.
+Q. I think, from memory, that you have the wording wrong.
+A. Young man, don't you have any respect for the aged? Nothing escapes from my lips that can't be quoted verbatim.
 Q. That got you into trouble with the Nobel Committee, didn't it?
 A. True. How true. I lost a Prize. It made Patrick happy though. Dear Patrick - but so difficult to read.
 Q. Do you consider yourself a cultured person?
 A. Naturally I do. Of course all my friends of the early years became world figures: Pablo, Salvador, Enrico and Oscar. Dear Oscar - so easy to read.
 Q Who is your favorite author?
 A. Baron Munchausen. I have tried to emulate him all my life. A grand figure.
 Q. I wonder if you would disclose why you refused to accept the 0.B.E.? Paddy and Dame Edna both accepted theirs.
-A. I suppose it can be revealed after all these years. It was the phone call from Windsor from His Highness saying that Wallis had won, and I was
-to be rejected; Love hath no fury......... It still upsets me. I wonder if this interview can be ended. I am very tired. But please stay for a Sarsaparilla I'll call Maude.
+A. I suppose it can be revealed after all these years. It was the phone call from Windsor from His Highness saying that Wallis had won, and I was to be rejected; Love hath no fury......... It still upsets me. I wonder if this interview can be ended. I am very tired. But please stay for a Sarsaparilla - I'll call Maude.
 This interview was recorded at the insistence of the Historical Society of Barrallier. The name of the interviewer was not known.