PLANT DEFIES SKILL OF MAN all efforts to cultivate Edel edelweiss artl f dally delally have failed the edelweiss farmers are busy na now said mr stump the interlaken Inter laken librarian in all the highlands of the ber berniese riese oberland Ober laud boy farmers are growing edelweiss in the nain aln hope of getting lich itch I 1 ahey hey wont though he continued you can t farm edel elss as ou can wheat the alist it grows beautifully the second yeas the flowers lack the woolly tuzy fuzy that Is the feature of the edel edelweiss and the third year there are no flowers at all nothing but leaves the tha wild edelweiss grows high up in the alpe in fit dangerous places you risk your life to pluck it and you can sell the flowers for 20 cents apiece now if 11 you had a acre edelweiss farm all white with ith blooms yielding every year 10 edelweiss at 20 cents each tc the acre well that would be 2000 a ear it we swiss are on the make and it if edelweiss farms were vere profitable there would be many a one hidden away in ID the remote valleys dut but what good Is edelweiss IdeliA elss without althous the woolly fuzz our bos grow it you can buy it from them cheap but the great Polet weiss farms started in the last generation genei geneia ailon tion by our lending capitalists all lie bar ren and deserted now