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Mi'iniii i;il Inscription on tlie Monument erected to .lolin C. Chapman, 

 otherwise known as Johnny Appleseed, at 1-ort Wayne, Indiana. 



Memorial Inscription on Monument 



On the 5th of May. 1916, in the city 

 of Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Indiana 

 Horticultural Society, in co-operation 

 with the John Chapman Memorial Asso- 

 ciation of Ohio, unveiled a monument 

 to the memory of John Chapman, uni- 

 versally known as Johnny Appleseed, 

 with an inscription of which a cut ap- 

 pears above. John Chapman was born 

 in 1776 in Massachusetts. He was a 

 pioneer apple grower in Indiana and 

 Ohio. With a great love for the fruit 

 industry, he traveled through all the 

 frontier regions of these two states, 

 always carrying with him apple seeds, 

 which he planted or gave away to set- 

 tlers, doing this continuously for a per- 

 iod of over forty years. And perhaps it 

 is due to him more than any one man 

 the credit for the thousands of orchards 

 throughout (lie Middle West, which 

 have continued to be a comfort and a 

 profit to the owners and inhabitants. 



History records he was not only a 

 remarkable man, but a man of eccen- 

 tricities in many ways. He wore very 

 little clothing, frequently trading apiile 

 trees for cast-off garments, continually 

 traveling through the forests giving 

 away apple seeds, i)lanling apple seeds 

 or selling apple trees. Freiiuently he 

 would have no other coat than a colfee 

 sack with armholes cut through. It is 

 stated he went barefooted most of the 

 time, even in winter. A strict vege- 

 tarian, eating no meat or fish; he be- 

 lieved it was wrong to take life in 

 order to procure food. This probably 



accounted for his zest and zeal for 

 encouraging people to plant and grow 

 fruit. He believed in outdoor life, 

 rarely sleeping in the shelter of a 

 house, and when he did he slept on the 

 floor. 



John Chapman certainly was an ec- 

 centric and peculiar individual, deemed 

 by some to be somewhat unbalanced, 

 but he was more than a planter and a 

 distributor of apple seeds, for he loved 

 his fellowmen and it was his greatest 

 pleasure in life to do anything in help- 

 ing his fellowmen, confining his work 

 largely to horticultural service and in- 

 struction. Along with this he was 

 religiously inclined, always preaching 

 Christianity, carrying with him pages 

 of his Swedenborgan Bible, from which 

 he would fre(|uently take out a leaf and 

 pin on the wall in some house where 

 he had stopped possibly for a meal or 

 overnight. His religon was a religion 

 of love, his favorite texts being, "Love 

 thy neighbor as thyself," "Blessed arc 

 the pure in heart," and "How beauteous 

 are Thy works, O God." 



Tliis short account is siidieient to 

 show there was something pccidiarly 

 touching and compelling in his life and 

 habits. It indicates he was a man of 

 very unassuming character, whose great 

 work was a work of love, doing the 

 things he thought would do the most 

 good, unmindful of fame or glory. So 

 we agree with those who have said 

 "(iod bless John Chapman.'" 



Ninth National Apple Show at 

 Spokane, Nov. 20-25 



COMPREHENSIVE plans already are 

 under way for the Ninth National 

 Apple Show, which will be held at 

 Spokane, November 20 to 25. Allen 

 Meisenheimer, a well-known Spokane 

 man who is interested in the apple 

 industry, is chairman of the board of 

 trustees, and, with Manager Gordon C. 

 Corbaley, will direct the show. 



A big innovation at this year's show 

 will he a special contest to select the 

 best five boxes of apples in the world. 

 This will be open to any grower, and 

 will determine which district and 

 which grower can produce the most 

 perfect five boxes of apples. This com- 

 petition will follow the general lines 

 of the world's competition at the 

 Panama-Pacific International Exposi- 

 tion at San Francisco last year, which 

 was won by Fred Conklin of Brewster, 

 Washington, with Winesaps. A prize 

 of .*250 in gold and a National Apple 

 Show world's championship banner 

 will be given the winner of this c(m- 

 test. The competition will be restricted 

 to the following varieties: Arkansas 

 Black, Delicious, Jonathan, Macintosh 

 Red, Rome Beauty, Spitzenberg, Stay- 

 man Winesap, Wagener, Winesap, Win- 

 ter Banana, White Winter Pearmain 

 and Yellow Newtown. 



The grade and pack demonstrations, 

 which were a big feature at last year's 

 show, again will be held for the pur- 

 pose of aiding to secure standard grade 

 and pack. The leading shippers and 

 associations in each district are being 

 invited to prepare displays that will 

 perfectly illustrate the range of fruit 

 that they understand should be per- 

 mitted within the limits of each grade 

 and pack. These displays will be 

 placed in immediate proximity to each 

 other at the National Apple Show so 

 that comparisons may be made with 

 the fruit. Especially is this important 

 because of the practical demonstration 

 that if will give to the growers them- 

 selves. At certain hours each day the 

 displays will be discussed in detail and 

 the growers' questions answered. 



In the five-box classes, 23 varieties 

 will compete, and first, second and 

 third prizes of $25, $12.56 and l?10, re- 

 spectively, will be given the winners 

 among each variety. The lots in this ■ 

 class are: Arkansas Black, Baldwin, 

 Ben Davis, Black Ben, Delicious, Grimes 

 Golden, Jonathan, King David, Macin- 

 tosh Red, Mammoth Black Twig, Mis- 

 souri Pii)pin, Ortley, Rainier, Red 

 Cheek Pippin. Rhode Island Greening, 

 Rome Reauty, Spitzenberg. Stayman 

 Winesap. Wagener. Winesai), Winter 

 Banana, White Winter Pearmain and 

 Yellow Newtown. 



The (ine-box contests again will be a 

 feature. First, second and third prizes 

 of $7.50. $5 and $2.50, respectively, will 

 be given the winners among 24 differ- 

 ent varieties. A $10 prize is offered for 

 the best single-box dis])Iay of a variety 

 not previously shown at a National 

 Apple .Show and scoring 90 or better. 



The National Apple Show offers a 

 froijhy Clip and cash prize of $25 to the 



