INTKOIHCTIOX OF THE APPLE INTO AMERICA 755 



The Work of Patrick Barn/ 



Up to the present time we have touched only that phase of apple 

 culture in western New York that was made by the early settlers. 

 Their efforts were individual and scattered, not collected and 

 systematic. About the middle of the nineteenth century, through 

 the influence primarily of Patrick Barry of Rochester, apple 

 growing in western Xcw York began a new epoch. It was the time 

 when scattered efforts were being systematized, individual strug- 

 gles made collective, and apple growing began its new career on a 

 commercial scale. 



Patrick Barry was born at Belfast, Ireland, in 1816. He came 

 to America at the age of twenty and after four years of service with 

 the Prince's at Flushing, Long Island, founded in 1840 with 

 George Ellwanger at Rochester, N. Y., the Mount Hope Nurseries. 

 Klhvanger and Barry introduced fruit growing into western New 

 York at a time when there were no railroads nor telegraphic facili- 

 ties, nor any fast ocean steamers to bring over their importations 

 from Europe. Mr. Barry did much to make Rochester a city of 

 nurseries and western New York a famous fruit-growing region. 

 The Western New York Horticultural Society, of which he was 

 president for more than thirty years and until his death, has long 

 exercised more than sectional influence. The work of Mr. Barry 

 was truly national and essentially that of a pioneer. It is of inter- 

 est to state that the work so ably inaugurated by him has been 

 continued by his son, William Barry, who succeeded his father 

 as president of the Western New York Horticultural Society, 

 a position that he still holds. 



APPLESEED JOHN AND THE APPLE IN THE WEST 



The story of the spread of the apple westward is not unlike 

 that of the history of its introduction into the New England 

 Colonies and New York State. At first it was scattered in the west 

 by Indians and the earliest pioneers. Chief among the latter 

 was Johnny Appleseed, an eccentric character who carried ap- 

 pleseeds into the wilds of Ohio and Indiana and sowed them 

 broadcast between the years 1801 and 1847. He was born in 

 Boston in 1775, and his real name was Jonathan Chapman. For 

 forty-six years he roamed the wilderness, sometimes clad only 



