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3 §The Fruit(What Johnny Did)You shall know them by their fruits.—Matthew 7:16
A Moveable EnterpriseJohnny’s initial work in western Pennsylvania was just the beginningof a long and memorable career. His labors over the nextforty-five years (1800–45) would extend beyond Pennsylvaniainto Ohio and eventually into Indiana, all of which becameknown as “Johnny Appleseed Country.” In some accounts,because of the seeds that Johnny gave to settlers traveling west,“Appleseed Country” extended even to Illinois, Kentucky, andbeyond.But in order to appreciate this aspect of the Johnny Appleseedstory, we need to start at the beginning, in western Pennsylvania,where Johnny was planting the first of his many nurseries.One of the earliest recollections on record is given by aman named R. I. Curtis, who wrote in 1859: “I knew him inVenango County, Pennsylvania, nearly sixty years ago [around1800] when I was a child of eight or nine years.” 1Curtis reports that Johnny “subsisted one whole winter onbutternuts.” He then reveals important details about how Johnnyconducted his apple tree enterprise. According to Curtis,Johnny was already anticipating those places where he believed“at a future day apple trees would be wanted.” Johnny traveledfrom Venango County south toward Pittsburgh, a hundred- milejourney along the Allegheny River, in order to harvest seedsfrom the cider mills near Pittsburgh. As Curtis puts it, “Then,in the fall, he would repair to [i.e., travel to] Allegheny County,Pennsylvania, and wash out of the pomace at cider mills a bushelor two of seeds, and return with them on his shoulder, plant38 The Core of Johnny Appleseed
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