Planting these, he died, but sailors coming twenty years later found the isle waving with fruit trees.

To the beauty of this legend let us add the truth of one who has made all this land his debtor.

In 1801 a youth passed through western Pennsylvania.

He was collecting apple seeds with which to found orchards in the then unbroken states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.

When he came to an open, sunny spot in the forest he would plant his seeds and protect them with a brush fence.