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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Is it worth pointing out that all those trees would most probably be dead 
now, and the fellow should be looking for successive grafted & budded trees 
?

Tanis Cuff


> From: Lon Rombough <lonrom@bunchgrapes.com>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] FW: a real johnny appleseed tree
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:20:26 -0700
>
> I know there was a discussion of known Johnny Appleseed trees a while back.
> Can anyone help this fellow out?
> -Lon Rombough
>
> ----------
> From: "Bill SLOAT" <bsloat@plaind.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:05:57 -0400
> To: <LONrom@bunchgrapes.com>
> Subject: a real johnny appleseed tree
>
> lon,
>
> thanks for helping me out.  i'm a reporter with the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain
> Dealer and I am looking for an apple tree that was planted by Johnny
> Appleseed (John Chapman).  This quest is like the hunt for the Holy Grail.
> I have been to the Algeo farm, I have been to Granville, Mt. Vernon, Newark
> and Richmond Ind.  I have no proof that is definitive on any of those
> claims: Just hand-me-down legends.   Could there be a proven tree 
> someplace?
> What's the buzz out there in NAFEX?  Who has hunted for the tree, and what
> have they found?
> Any insights, sightings, tales of the hunt etc. will be appreciated.  I am
> trying to write a story for Sept. 26, his birthday.  Thanks.
> bill sloat
> reporter
> cleveland plain dealer
> synare riamtaruHohn Cham




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