230 FRUIT-GROWING 



West, one figure stands out clearly in the per- 

 son of John Chapman, otherwise known as 

 Johnny Appleseed. Before the hardiest home- 

 steader had broken his first field in the wilder- 

 ness, there came tramping and canoeing 

 through the woods, this most interesting voy- 

 ager of that early time. He worked without 

 pay and without hope of reward, preparing 

 orchards for the settlers that he knew would 

 follow him. With his spade and axe and his 

 bundle of fruit trees he traversed the unbroken 

 forests and made clearings in which he planted 

 fruits. Doubtless some of these trees are still 

 standing. Several years ago I saw one that 

 stood near Spiceland, in Henry County, Indi- 

 ana. It had no fruit on it at the time, but an 

 old resident of the neighborhood told me that 

 when he was a boy and the tree was in its 

 prime, it produced large crops of fruit which 

 they then considered excellent. On May 5th, 

 1916, the Indiana Horticultural Society un- 

 veiled a monument to the memory of John 

 Chapman in the city park at Ft. Wayne, Indi- 

 ana. The old man died and was buried near 

 that town in 1843. 



I have said that all of our commercial apples 

 have either been introduced or have originated 

 from seeds of introduced sorts. The majority 

 of the varieties growing in our orchards to-day 

 have at some time grown from seeds planted on 



