of Pomology at the West. 133 



is, that they differ widely in the modus operandi employed, 

 so far as man's agency is concerned, in carrying them on ; 

 but is it not an anomaly in nature, if the fact be so, that she 

 should go to work by more than one law to accomplish the 

 same end ? And, after all, may not the results obtained by 

 the two modes be really attributable to the same causes, only 

 exerted in different ways 7 Or, in other words, are they not 

 brought about by the same natural law; in the one case 

 left to operate as chance or accident may determine, in the 

 other guided and aided by the mind and by the hand of 

 man? 



These remarks, by way of introduction, lead us, fitly 

 enough, to what is the main purpose of this communication : 



THE 



HISTORY 



OF THE LIFE OP 



JOHNNY APPLESEED. 



About the time of the survey of the lands in the United 

 States military district, northwest of the river Ohio, prepara- 

 tory to their location by those holding the warrants which 

 had been issued by the government to the soldiers of the 

 revolutionary war, for services during that war, there came 

 to the valley of the Muskingum and its tributaries, the Tus- 

 carawas, Walhouding, Mohican, &c., a man, whose real 

 name, if ever known, is not now remembered by the oldest 

 inhabitants here, but who was commonly known and called 

 all over the country by the name of Johnny Appleseed. 



This man had imbibed so remarkable a passion for the 

 rearing and cultivation of apple trees from the seed, and pur- 

 sued it with so much zeal and perseverance, as to cause him 

 to be regarded by the few settlers, just then beginning to 

 make their appearance in the country, with a degree of 

 almost superstitious admiration. 



Immediately upon his advent he commenced the raising of 

 apple trees from the seed, at a time when there were not per- 

 haps fifty white men v/ithin the forty miles square. He 

 would clear a few rods of ground in some open part of the 

 forest, girdle the trees standing upon it, surround it with a 

 brush fence, and plant his apple seed. This done, he would 

 go off some twenty miles or so, select another favorable spot, 



