Show apple time the crows fly over the mowed lands the autumn ditch boasts of its cattails coattails cat tails the roadside of its sumac and the time is at hand when the countryman country man gathers the groenings Green ings wolf rivers delici delicious ous rome beauties and jonathans for storing in a cool place in the cellar A apple time is when we especially remember john chapman better known as johnny Appl eseed named so because he plaited plan ted apple seeds wherever he set his foot many states claim their apple trees were from seeds planted by johnny but lie he spent most of those years going his barefoot way in in ohio and indiana ile he lived main mainly on roots and was eager to denounce the evils of tea drinking and vain dressing in calico he was labeled mad by those pioneers in in the early perhaps you a gree agree ile he died of exhaustion after tra traveling miles on foot to one of the orchards lie he had planted since this was his way with the fruit legend has kept his name alive poets have sung his worth and the saints have no doubt smiled kindly upon hirn him as he planted his seeds |