"in his chapter on the apple in Botany of Desire, John Chapman (1774–1845), for religious reasons related to the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg, believed grafting was an unnatural practice. Chapman was given the nickname ""Appleseed"" pejoratively for his highly unusual practice of planting trees from seed. Apples grown from seed are most often small and poorly flavored. Back when the frontier only extended as far west as the state of Indiana, that worked fine for Johnny Appleseed, since the apples from his trees were used principally for making hard cider. Also the pioneers didn't have any other choice in suppliers."
"Johnny Appleseed John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples. He was also a missionary for The New Church (Swedenborgian) and the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio, and"
"John S. Harris (horticulturalist) John Samuel Harris (August 17, 1826 – March 24, 1901) was an early American horticulturalist, who was the first person to successfully plant and propagate apple trees in Minnesota, a climate in which it was previously thought that the fruit could not survive the harsh northern U.S winters. Harris was born on a farm in Seville, Ohio. When he was 18, his father died and he was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker. When he was 21, Harris enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the infantry in the war with Mexico. When the war ended in"
"Swedenborg's pamphlets, and later in the novel, the characters actually refer to him as Johnny Appleseed. The residents call the variety of apples ""Blackwell Look-No-Further."" In 2016, the history podcast, The Broadsides, did an episode detailing the life and myths surrounding Johnny Appleseed. Johnny Appleseed John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind,"
"journey of planting apple trees. There are stories of Johnny Appleseed practicing his nurseryman craft in the area of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and of picking seeds from the pomace at Potomac cider mills in the late 1790s. Another story has Chapman living in Pittsburgh on Grant's Hill in 1794 at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion. The popular image is of Johnny Appleseed spreading apple seeds randomly everywhere he went. In fact, he planted nurseries rather than orchards, built fences around them to protect them from livestock, left the nurseries in the care of a neighbor who sold trees on shares,"
"cartoon featured lively tunes, and a childlike simplicity of message. This animated short was included in ""Disney's American Legends"", a compilation of four animated shorts. Supposedly, the only surviving tree planted by Johnny Appleseed is on the farm of Richard and Phyllis Algeo of Nova, Ohio. Some marketers claim it is a Rambo, more than a century before John Chapman was born. Some even make the claim that the Rambo was ""Johnny Appleseed's favorite variety"", ignoring that he had religious objections to grafting and preferred wild apples to all named varieties. It appears most nurseries are calling the tree the"
"Johnny Appleseed Park Johnny Appleseed Park, including what was formerly known as Archer Park, is a public park in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is named after the popular-culture nickname of John Chapman, better known as ""Johnny Appleseed"", a famous American pioneer, who was buried on the site. Chapman's gravesite is accessible to public view through steel gates. The weathered tombstone says, ""Johnny Appleseed He lived for others. 1774–1845."" It also has a carved apple in bas relief. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The land of the park was donated to Allen County, Indiana,"
"his sorrows and throw himself into the struggle, has proved too much for the government. To leave him free to criticise the government was intolerable, so his white skin has proved no protection for him…"" He died on 14 May 1946 after an extended illness shortly before Indian independence. Satyananda Stokes Satyananda Stokes (born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., 16 August 1882 – 14 May 1946) was an American who settled in India and participated in the Indian Independence Movement. He is best remembered today for having introduced apple cultivation to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where apples are today"
"Apple Tree Man In English folklore, the Apple Tree Man is the name given to the spirit of the oldest apple tree in an orchard, and in whom the fertility of the orchard is thought to reside. Tales about the Apple Tree Man were collected by the folklorist Ruth Tongue in the cider producing county of Somerset. In one story a man offers his last mug of mulled cider to the trees in his orchard on Christmas Eve (a reflection of the custom and ritual of apple wassailing). He is rewarded by the Apple Tree Man who reveals to him"
"won prizes for his fruit trees at agricultural fairs in Honiton. However older growers in Somerset, according to Harold Taylor in ""The Apples of England"", told a story that the Putt commemorated by the apple was a rector, Rev. Thomas Putt of Trent, a nephew of Thomas Putt of Combe. It is possible that ""Black Tom"" Putt first developed the variety and subsequently gave a tree to his nephew. Tom Putt was grown widely across Devon and Somerset for many years, in gardens as well as orchards, leading to it being nicknamed the ""Cottage Apple"". Although due to this wide"
"Johnny Appleseed (film) The Legend of Johnny Appleseed is an animated short musical segment from Walt Disney's 1948 film ""Melody Time"". It is narrated by Dennis Day and is based on the American frontiersman John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. In 1806, Pittsburgh farmer Johnny Appleseed watches as pioneers depart out west and wishes he could follow. Johnny is inspired by an angel to abandon his farm, go west, and plant apple seeds everywhere he goes. The angel tells Johnny that he has all that he needs to go out West: a bag of seeds to plant, a Bible,"
"St. Tibb's Eve is, nor did anyone else know. Apple Tree Man In English folklore, the Apple Tree Man is the name given to the spirit of the oldest apple tree in an orchard, and in whom the fertility of the orchard is thought to reside. Tales about the Apple Tree Man were collected by the folklorist Ruth Tongue in the cider producing county of Somerset. In one story a man offers his last mug of mulled cider to the trees in his orchard on Christmas Eve (a reflection of the custom and ritual of apple wassailing). He is rewarded"
"John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed.) Loammi Baldwin Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10, 1744 – October 20, 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering. His five sons, Cyrus Baldwin (1773–1854), Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (1777–1821), Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780–1834), James Fowle Baldwin (1782–1862), and George Rumford Baldwin (1798–1888) were also well-known engineers. He surveyed and was responsible for the construction of the Middlesex Canal, but today he is perhaps best remembered for the Baldwin apple which he developed at his farm, or rather he recognized"
"stock for grafting other varieties to become standard size trees. A Northern Spy apple tree figures in the poem ""Conrad Siever"" in Edgar Lee Masters' ""Spoon River Anthology"", and in the poetry of Chase Twichell, whose first book ""Northern Spy"" was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1981. Northern Spy The Northern Spy, also called 'Spy' and 'King', is a cultivar of domesticated apple that originated in East Bloomfield, New York in about 1800. It is popular in upstate New York. The Northern Spy was one of four apples honored by the United States Postal Service in a"
"Satyananda Stokes Satyananda Stokes (born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., 16 August 1882 – 14 May 1946) was an American who settled in India and participated in the Indian Independence Movement. He is best remembered today for having introduced apple cultivation to the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where apples are today the major horticultural export crop. Satyananda was born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., in an American Quaker family. His father, a very successful businessman, was the founder of the ""Stokes and Parish Machine Company"" which was a leading manufacturer of elevators in the USA. The Young Samuel did not acquire"
"three separate cultural icons: the concept of becoming a Hero, in the sense of the legendary figures of ancient Greece; Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Great Stone Face"", in which legend predicts that a great man will appear whose face is identical to the natural stone face which, in the Hawthorne story, is a local landmark; and finally, the quest to find the legendary Raintree, which was supposedly planted somewhere in Raintree County by John Chapman, or Johnny Appleseed. Johnny Shawnessy tends to view the events of his life through the prism of one or more of these contexts, and to draw"
"because the tree was frequented by woodpeckers. Deacon Samuel Thompson, a surveyor of Woburn, Massachusetts, brought it to the attention of Col. Loammi Baldwin, who propagated it and more widely introduced it in eastern Massachusetts. From Col. Baldwin's interest in the variety it came to be called the Baldwin. A monument to the Baldwin apple now stands on today's Chestnut street in Wilmington. The monument's inscription reads: ""This monument marks the site of the first Baldwin Apple Tree found growing wild near here. It fell in the gale of 1815. The apple first known as the Butters, Woodpecker or Pecker"
"the many pieces considered for inclusion in ""Fantasia"". This segment is a retelling of the story of John Chapman, who spent most of his life roaming Mid-Western America (mainly Ohio and Indiana) in the pioneer days, and planting apple trees, thus earning his famous nickname. Dennis Day narrates (as an ""old settler who knew Johnny well"") and provides the voices of both Johnny and his guardian angel. This segment was released independently on December 25, 1955 as ""Johnny Appleseed"". The piece has a running time of ""17 minutes [making it] the film's second-longest piece"". Before being adapted as a segment"
"as his niece Jenny, the story—while entertaining—takes considerable liberties with the original tall tale. Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction novel ""Farmer in the Sky"", which depicts future colonists on Ganymede and takes up consciously many of the themes of the 19th-century American frontier and homesteading, also includes a character who is known as ""Johnny Appleseed"" and, like the historical one, is involved in planting and spreading apple trees. John Clute's science fiction novel ""Appleseed"" (2001) centers on a character who may (or may not) be the immortal John Chapman. John Chapman and his brother Nathaniel are characters in Alice Hoffman's"
"- some claim they are placed there by pixies, but it is known that the author Beatrice Chase was one person who did this, before her death in 1955. By 2007 the placing of flowers had expanded into all sorts of votive offerings: coins, candles, shells, small crosses and toys, for instance. Motorists, passing at night, claim to have glimpsed ghostly figures in their headlights, others report seeing a dark, hooded figure kneeling there. Jay's Grave was the inspiration for John Galsworthy's short story ""The Apple Tree"", written in 1916. In the 1970s, knowledge of the legend prompted Martin Turner"
"Classic Short Films"" on May 12, 2009. Johnny Appleseed (film) The Legend of Johnny Appleseed is an animated short musical segment from Walt Disney's 1948 film ""Melody Time"". It is narrated by Dennis Day and is based on the American frontiersman John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. In 1806, Pittsburgh farmer Johnny Appleseed watches as pioneers depart out west and wishes he could follow. Johnny is inspired by an angel to abandon his farm, go west, and plant apple seeds everywhere he goes. The angel tells Johnny that he has all that he needs to go out West: a"
"Peter Gideon Farmhouse Peter Gideon (1820–1899) was a farmer near Excelsior, Minnesota, United States, who was responsible for breeding apples that could withstand Minnesota's climate. Gideon's farmhouse, now within the boundaries of Shorewood, Minnesota, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Gideon moved to Minnesota in 1853, near Lake Minnetonka, and experimented with planting pear, plum, cherry, peach, and apple seeds. After ten years of experimentation, the harsh Minnesota winters had killed off all of his trees except for one seedling crab apple tree. Instead of giving up, he sent back to Bangor, Maine for seeds and scions,"
"the first European to have settled in Boston, but left when he and the newly arrived Puritans disagreed about religion.) He preached his brand of tolerant Christianity under an oak tree that became an inspiration to Christians worldwide. He lived on a farm in the Lonsdale area of Cumberland, where he cultivated the first variety of American apples, the Yellow Sweeting. The site of his home is now occupied by the Ann & Hope mill. The popular tourist destination ""Nine Men's Misery"" is a tomb found on the grounds of a former Trappist monastery (Abbey of Our Lady of the"
"of earlier levels. In 1925 the people of Cornelia realized that the apple had been a key in preventing the scourge that destroyed other counties and drove rural families to cities like Atlanta and Macon. The concept for the statue was born, thanks in part to the newly formed Kiwanis Club. At the dedication on June 4, 1926, many notables attended, including Senator Walter F. George. This, however, is not the end of the apple crop story. Because apple sales were off dramatically, in 1932 local farmers decided to put them in cold storage until the following spring, but the"
"""Johnny Appleseed"" variety, rather than a Rambo. Unlike the mid-summer Rambo, the Johnny Appleseed variety ripens in September and is a baking-applesauce variety similar to an Albemarle Pippin. Nurseries offer the Johnny Appleseed tree as an immature apple tree for planting, with scions from the Algeo stock grafted on them. Orchardists do not appear to be marketing the fruit of this tree. References to Johnny Appleseed abound in popular culture. He appears in Neil Gaiman's ""American Gods"" as a friend of Algonquin trickster Whiskey Jack (Wisakedjak). Rock bands NOFX, Guided by Voices, and Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros have all"
"Piper Orchard Piper Orchard is a fruit orchard containing primarily heirloom apple trees, located within Seattle Washington's Carkeek Park. The orchard was planted in what was then the homestead of notable Seattle settler A. W. Piper, sometime after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 which destroyed the Pipers' downtown business, the Puget Sound Candy Factory. The orchard is located on a hillside in what is now known as Piper Canyon, above Pipers Creek. Mrs Wilhelmina (or Minna for short) Piper was the primary gardener and grafter. One of the Pipers's sons, Paul Piper, used to take the fruit to market"
"released songs titled ""Johnny Appleseed"", as have Grammy-winning American pastoral duo Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel. ""Johnny Appleseed"" also featured in a comic series in ""The Victor"" in the UK in the early sixties. In Philip Roth's novel ""American Pastoral"", the central character imagines himself as Johnny Appleseed when he moves from Newark to a rural community; in this case the figure stands for an innocent, childlike version of the American pioneer spirit. The Japanese role-playing game ""Wild Arms 5"" mentions Johnny Appleseed as a central figure in the plotline. Apple Inc. uses a ""Johnny Appleseed"" character as a placeholder"
"to evoke a ""new year that is good [the apple] and sweet [the honey]"". It is a long-standing tradition in many tribal communities that the first born child of any couple shall be presented with an apple randomly picked from a tree by their paternal grandparents on the day of their birth. If the chosen apple is sliced open and revealed to have a worm inside, it is a bad omen and on their 21st birthday, the child must perform a dance to the fruit gods to spare the lives of their own offspring. The Greek hero Heracles, as a"
"Adam when the Earth produced thorns and thistles even where men sowed wheat and that Noah then introduced the plow. According to the ""Jewish Encyclopedia"", ""The Book of Genesis contains two accounts of Noah."" In the first, Noah is the hero of the flood, and in the second, he is the father of mankind and a husbandman who planted the first vineyard. ""The disparity of character between these two narratives has caused some critics to insist that the subject of the latter account was not the same as the subject of the former."" Perhaps the original name of the hero"
"distinction as an anachronistic ""ghost of evolution"". ""Maclura pomifera"" has been known by a variety of common names in addition to Osage orange, including hedge apple, horse apple, bois d'arc, bodark, monkey ball, bow-wood, yellow-wood and mock orange. The earliest account of the tree in the English language was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River. It was a curiosity when Meriwether Lewis sent some slips and cuttings to President Jefferson in March 1804. According to Lewis's letter, the"
"they are more vigorous and grow slightly larger. They are also stronger and hardier, and more likely to survive frosts. Harris was a founding member of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, in 1866. Harris also displayed an exhibit on apple propagation at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Harris died of influenza and typhoid fever at age 74, in 1901, in La Crescent, after a long illness. He is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery in La Crescent. John S. Harris (horticulturalist) John Samuel Harris (August 17, 1826 – March 24, 1901) was an early American horticulturalist, who was the first person"
"ranch, located in the heart of apple country, draws more than 300,000 visitors yearly make the scenic drive to Oak Glen to pick apples, picnic and hike as well as enjoy the homemade apple pies and freshly pressed cider. Joseph E. Wilshire, who helped make the Oak Glen area famous for apple growing in the early 1900s had realized early on the suitability of The Glen for growing bountiful apples and began buying land where with his brothers George, Henry and Edward began the Wilshire legacy. The original settlers to Oak Glen were the Cahuilla and the Serrano. They harvested"
"of apples developed by the Stark brothers of Louisiana, United States as being suitable to the Simla Hills and began cultivating them on his farm. This was in the year 1916. The resulting bumper crops, coupled with Samuel's access to the white people who ran the export business in Delhi encouraged the other farmers to do as Samuel was doing, and he helped them wholeheartedly in every way. Indeed, he purchased more land and devoted it to groving apple cultivars which the villagers would use to seed their own farms. The local economy was vastly reinvigorating. This happy idyll was"