Show to Pre gerro an alpine flower the diet of the tyrol baat week passed a hill imposing heavy fines upon persons found selling any sample of the beautiful but rare alpine flower called edelweiss which has been palled up by the roots on the mountains A similar act was passed seven years ago by the diet of salzburg with a view to the preservation of the edelweiss plant which is threatened with extinction in the austrian alps in the salzburg district the success of this legislation is unfortunately not encouraging |