The Archive · 1939

Natural Riches of Georgia

The varied natural wealth of Georgia will be on view at the pavilion of this republic: tea, oranges, lemons, grapefruit tung, eucalyptus, geranium, rami and other cultures of the humid subtropics. The best grades of tobacco, which go to make up the fame of Abkhazia; Imeretia with its silk and vineyards; Kakhetia, which is completely enveloped in vineyards; Kartalinia, with its fruit orchards that alternate with sugar beet plantations—all this and more will be available to the spectator, who will see subtropical plants in conditions closely resembling the natural environments.

The achievements of the best Stakhanovites, the gains of agricultural science, will be shown in experimental plots and in the fruit orchard on the exhibition grounds. Here a visitor will have the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the work of Academician T. D. Lysenko. Here he can learn the methods of intro-varietal crossing of plants and summer planting potatoes. The visitor will learn how Soviet biologists, who base themselves on the teachings of Darwin, Timirayzev and Michurin, are transforming the plant world for the needs of Socialist agriculture.

The exhibition will be positively unique in its scope and lay-out and is expected to attract visitors from all parts of the world.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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