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Show 1 PtANT DEFIES SKILL OF MAN. All efforts to CulUvaio Edelweiss Artificially Arti-ficially Hsvo follsEL "Tho edelweUs farmors are busy' oaw." said Mr. Stump, tho lnterlakea llbrartra. "In nil tho highlands of the Herncso Oboruuwl boy farmers are growing edelweiss In the rolu hope of Betting rich. They won't, though.'" lie continued. "You can't farm edel-welss edel-welss as you can whest. The first year it grows beautifully, the second years the flowers lack the woolly fun that Is the feature ot tho edelweiss, and the third year there are no flowers st all, nothing but leaves, Tho wild edelweiss grows high Up Itt tho Alps In dangerous places, You risk your life to pluck It, And you cart suit the fiowdri for 20 cents apiece. Now, If you had a 100 acre edelweiss (arm, all 1 white with blooms, yielding ovary year 10,000 edelweiss at 20 cents each to the acre wrti, that would be 2,000, 000 a year, wouldn't Itt "Vvo Swiss are on the r.akB and If edelweiss farms were profitable there Would be many a one hidden away la tho remote Valleys, Mat what good Is edelweiss without the woolly ftui? Our hoys grow it, sm tan buy It from them cheap, but tho great edelweUs farms atttrted In tho last generation by our leading capitalists alt ll bah ren aud deserted nowi" |