On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:36:04 +0200, "Opinicus" >
wrote:

>This site's rather more clear-eyed and hardnosed about John Chapman (aka
>Johnny Appleseed) and what he was doing.
>
>http://www.jappleseed.org/history.html

Check out 'The Botany of Desire' (recent best-seller) in your local
library. A quarter of the book is devoted to apple history and
cultivation, as well as considerable material on John Chapman.