Johnny Appleseed wandered the American wilderness planting cider apples so that once settlers came, they could get drunk. Honor his life today.
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He also spread this liver-destroying nuisance weed because he was a true goddamned Americanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupatorium_capillifolium …
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My grandfather wrote the book on apples so do not test me.pic.twitter.com/J55icAlTiK
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@Pinboard Cider apples don't grow true either! He had weird religious (Swedenborgian) objections to grafting. -
I knew he was Swedenborgian but had no idea it affected his pomology! Thank you for that fact!
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I think I remember a Firefly episode that had that story.
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What does “grow true” mean?
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It means you can't take a seed out of an apple and then grow it into a tree that produces that kind of apple. You'll almost certainly get something inedible. The only way to get the same kind of apple to grow is by grafting.
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