Word: michurin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan includes extensive planting of frost-resisting crops of the sort developed by the late Ivan Michurin, the Burbank of Russia. A start has already been made with tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce grown under glass at Khibina, inside the Arctic Circle, and with potatoes and cabbage that ripen outdoors in the wan, fleeting summer...
Died. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, 75, "Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...
There are legends about Ivan Michurin. One is that he has never left the town where he was born 74 years ago. Another is that when he was a stripling in high school he met the principal on the street one day, kept his hat on his head because the day was cold, was expelled for rudeness. Young Ivan got a job as an office clerk, rented twelve good acres of black soil, started experimenting with plants...
...Michurin and his works are not well known to U. S. botanists. He is not listed in international botanical encyclopedias. But the Russians say he has developed a palatable blend of apple and cherry which is grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations...
...Tsarist Government paid no attention to Michurin. But Lenin encouraged him and the Soviet Commissariat gave him 20,000 acres which had belonged to a monastery, conferred on him the orders of Lenin and of the Red Banner. Comrade Michurin never bothered about money, reputedly refused a fat offer to work in the U. S. Last fortnight he wrote to Dictator Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin, thanked him for raising "a lone experimenter, unrecognized and ridiculed, to the position of a leader and organizer...