Show to breser preserve e nn an alpine aliane rhower the diet of the tyrol last week passed a mil 1111 imposing heavy lines upon persons found selling any sample of the tha beautiful but rare alpine flower called edelweiss edelweis which has been pulled up by the dootson roots on the mountains A similar act was passed seven years ago by bythe the diet of salzburg with a view to the preservation of the edelweiss plant which Is ii threatened with extinction ox in the aus aua trian alps in the salzburg district the tha success of this legislation is ia bately not encouraging |