PROTEA 



shows for many successive seasous, is as certain as that 

 they were once the glories of the old flue-heated houses 

 that our forefathers called stoves, in which orchids 

 quickly perished, and Banksias and Proteas throve 

 magnificently." Over 40 colored plates of Proteas have 

 been published, of which 23 appeared in Andrews' Bot. 

 Eep between 1797 and 1811 



The interest m pioteaceous plants is growing in 

 southern California Proteads have a reputation for 

 being difficult to cultivate awaj from the Cape but 

 Hooker s statement seems to indicate that their culture 

 is not so much difhcult as special Under glass they are 

 said to lequire a coolhouse whith is air\ and sunn\ 

 "The one great danger t ulrn it 1 1 r 1 1 1 (\ 



Watson 'is exeessn e \\ ii m i i i 



i^' '}!M 



plan 

 place t 

 ing in 

 space 

 ter IS 

 species 



in the 



stthi. 



of 



of the 

 ts are 



ek to liieik 



le h I 11 unsup 

 ported 



The finiily ProteaceeB contains 14 gen 

 era of which 10 aie t\ pu il of southern 

 Afuca and 4 of A.n ii ili , \ idingto 

 Bentham and H 1 i lii 1 utiiK i as dis 

 tinct as possible in 1 h n \ i I en con 

 fused b\ an^ cue with unthiii.. , 1 e The 

 m t p pulir nieiuljer it tiic tunilj for 

 gr nil u ulture in Ameuca at present 

 is th '--ill 1 1 ik or GreMllea In southern 

 (_';ilit iiiiitli interest in the faniiK IS now 

 ceutci 1 11 til Sil^nr Trn I ncaden 

 dron will hit! I i i ii ii ii about 

 Cape 1 « 11 in 1 I I Iv mtne 



tree of iii\ I u I i m quintit\ Proteis 



ripen st 1 ti i I 1 m be easily procured 



from th I n t i| i nt \ u the two species winch 

 have xfti i i 1 th m t ittention m the horticultui U 

 world 11 / II II I I (< J< 8 35 ( C III 17 77i 

 G.M 3b 4(1 ( iitnr\ Hook of Gard 310) and P nana 

 (B M 70 H t I- 4 4H (tM 35 268 209) 



The Australian Proteaceae are monographed m the 

 Flora Austrahensis Good horticultural accounts are 

 those of Wm Watson m C P 8 34 and 4 412 which 

 have been liberally quoted above ^ jl 



' kinds of motion It tills \e 

 and dCtiveU forming cells conipletelj full like thm 

 lelh in a glass flask But as growth continues bubbles 

 of clear -Bdter appear which soon enlaige and then 

 coalesce so that at length the protoplasm becomes a 

 thin lining to the cell wall and incloses a cential body 



PROTEADS 



Pic 



PROTECTION as used b) the gaidener is an indeh 

 nite terra A plant mt^ need protection from living 

 agencies as animals birds insects or plants (incluil 

 ing fungi and weeds) — or it may need protection fi ni 

 the weather —heat cold rain diought Generil 

 however the gaidener means by protection wiiit 

 protection which again covers two ^ erj distinct idi 

 Most Cape bulbs for instance are ruined if the^ n 

 frozen tuliy ire n t \et Cape bulbs can sometmi 

 be Wirt 1 I I I 111 tliev are protected by a covei 

 ing hi \ I p out frost Strawberries on 



the c iiti I itter frost with a light mulch 



which 1 I 11 !) I\ t>k 11 till ) 1 lilts fiuni bcin., 

 heaved M ilttrnae ti ii ill n Th ui 



the mam obiects of «ii i 1 1 I I it 



least with heibs In th | I linii ii is 



also need pr tfctim fr in il m I t inn 



mer an 1 fi n lui ill il niii-citaut 



consi III 1 1 I See Wmtei 



Piott t I I under Oieen 



hou!,!' I Insecticides 



Funiji I, I I II / 



PROTOPLASM A substance sometimes called the 

 pli>sical b\sis of life apparently universally present 

 and functional m all living bodies plants and animals 

 alike It varies greatly in consistence owing to the 

 proportional amount of water contained from a semi 

 fluid to a firm solid and its chemical composition is 

 con tantlv changing bv its own constructive and destruc 

 ti\e acti\it\ The shni-s substance observed when bark 



of water Not unfioqu ntl- 



stretch through the w it i i 

 may often be oh erM 1 ti 

 The protiipl i im 1 u i i I 



the cell will i ' 

 When It ill 



outer bark In i I i 



are lifeles ,n 1 ,m tun ti 



form are solely mechanical . 



In living cells of all pUn 



plication 

 formed n 

 the active 



ril strings 

 substance 

 111 in these 



csseutiil to cell multi 

 No new cells are ever 

 excepted above without 



he latter 

 of both 

 no such 



Thii 



e\pliins wh\ the char uteri ti of t ii 1 ind ciou do 

 not become mixed however intimate the union the 

 tissues adhere together and nutrient fluids pass up or 

 down but there is no intermingling be\ond this No 

 cell becomes half and half of stock and cion Each pre 



