![]() ![]() (5 & 6) In popular culture, Johnny Appleseed was often depicted barefoot, with only the clothes on his back, a bag of apple seeds, and wearing a tin cooking pot, that he carried to cook with. Many books and movies have been based on his life. ![]() (4) He became a legend while he was still alive and a part of early American legend. (2 & 3) Born John Chapman, he wandered the young nation planting trees and nurseries from seeds and preaching. But some historians reject that association, since the legendary apple lovers did not believe in grafting, due to his religion, and Rambo trees require grafting to perpetuate. Johnny Appleseed was a Swedenborgian missionary, as well as an orchardist, and spread seeds and sermons propitiously throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, an West Virginia. PHOTOS: (1) In legend, Johnny Appleseed was often associated with the Rambo apple, which is a cultivar whose origins are unknown but may date back to the Swedish-American colony of New Sweden in 1637.
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