Show to preserve stu an alpina flower the diet of the tyrol last week passed a bill imposing hedvy heavy fines upon persons found selling belling any sample of the beamut beautiful 1 but bin rare alpine flower I 1 called c edelweiss winch which has been pulled polled up by tho the roots on the mountains A similar act was wag passed seven years yean ago by the diet of salzburg with a view to the preservation of the edelweiss plant which is threatened with extinction in the ana trian alps in the salzburg district the success of this legislation is bately not cot encouraging I 1 |