74 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



JoHXNY Ai'i'LKSKKD. — The note regarding "Johnny 

 Appleseed" in the January number of this magazine has 

 brought out several addional bits of information. Mr. S. H. 

 Burham writes that the Macmillan Campany has issued 

 two printings of a novel by the Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis 

 under the tittle of "The Quest of John Chapman; the story 

 of a forgotten hero." According to Mr. Burnham, Harpers 

 have also issued (1915) "Johnny Appleseed, the romance of 

 the Sower," by Mrs. Eleanor (Stackhouse) Atkinson. Rev. 

 C. \y. G. Eifrig, commenting on the statement that Chap- 

 man's burial place is unknown writes: This is an error. 

 Last year I had the privilege of standing at the grave of 

 "Appleseed." This was in connection with the annual pil- 

 grimage of the Society of Indiana Pioneers and the Indiana 

 Historical Society to Et. Wayne, Indiana. After all the 

 historical spots in and around Et. Wayne had been visited, 

 including the sites of the various Erench, English and Ameri- 

 can forts, the pilgrimage wound up at the grave of Johnny 

 Appleseed. This is on the Rudisill farm about five miles 

 north of the city. The grave is in the middle of a small 

 cemetary. used only for a short time by the neigborhood. 

 Chapman had died nearby at the farm home of William 

 Worth. The grave has been supplied with a strong iron 

 fence and a monument by the Indiana Horticultural Society, 

 if I remember right. The inscription on the stone: "John 

 Chapman 'Johnny Appleseed' died in 1843". (not 1847 as stat- 

 ed in the note in (|uestion). There is also a tablet erected 

 to his memory in Swinney Park in Et. Wayne. There are 

 still apple-trees in and around the city, patriarchs of their 

 kind, that are pointed out as having been planted by Johnny 

 Appleseed. Appleseed was a unique character in the pioneer 

 stage of that part of our country. It is said that in order 

 to reduce the nvmiber of bundles containg his few belong- 



