1. Johnny Appleseed
September 26

2. Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on
September 26, 1774.

3. Johnny Appleseed was a legendary American who planted and supplied apple trees to much of the United States of America. Many people think that Johnny Appleseed was a fictional character, but he was a real person.

4. His real name was
John Chapman,
but he was called
Johnny Appleseed
because of his
love for growing
apple trees.

5. Johnny was a skilled nurseryman who grew trees and supplied apple seeds to the pioneers in the mid-western USA.

6. Although he was a very successful man, Johnny Appleseed lived a simple life. It is said that as Johnny traveled, he wore his cooking pot on his head as a hat!

7. Johnny Appleseed gave away and sold many trees.
He owned many nurseries in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, where he grew his beloved apple trees.

8. Apple Tree in Winter
Johnny died at the age of 70; he is buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had spent 50 years growing apple trees and traveling to spread his precious trees around his country.

9. Away up high in the apple tree Two red apples smiled at me.
I shook the tree
As hard as I could.
Down came the apples
Mmmmm good.

10. Empire
An excellent lunchbox apple or crunch snack! Sweet and tart at the same time. Use for fresh-cut slices, candy and caramel apples. Also used in baking. Texture remains very firm, a good storing apple. Popular in Great Britain.

11. Gala
Talk about a great apple: Crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness. Michigan’s 3rd most popular apple for fresh eating or cooking. Looks great, smells sweet, eats like a dream!

12. Golden Delicious
A gingery-smooth, sweet taste treat lies under a thin skin.
The most popular yellow apple, Goldens may be eaten fresh or cut up in salads.
Professional’s choice for applesauce or cider, baking pies and other desserts.

13. Fuji Fuji is Japan’s favorite apple for good reason!
Fantastic sweet and tart flavor, with a low acid content.
An incredibly good keeper,
Fuji stays crisp for weeks!

14. Honey Crisp
This apple is hot! -- and mighty crisp. Combines unusual color and excellent sweet flavor with a great bite. Use it for fresh eating, fresh-cut slices or cut up in salads.

15. A-P-P-L-E x4 I know a fruit that grows on trees
And apple is it’s name-o!
Chorus:
A-P-P-L-E x4
And apple is its name-o!
In summer and early fall
It’s time to pick an apple.
A McIntosh or Granny Smith
Or a Golden Delicious!
Make apple juice or applesauce
Or apple pie with apples!

16. Braeburn
Braeburns are great for snacking and baking. Washington growers harvest the variety in September and early October. Consumers can purchase Washington Braeburns from October through July.

17. Ida Red
Suits your every use! Eat fresh or for cooking. Taste is both tangy and tart. Flesh is white, crisp and juicy. Favored for sauces, pies and desserts. Texture holds up
well when baked.

18. Jonagold
Make sure you try this one! Superbly crisp and juicy with shades of tart and sweet in each apple. Usually large and aromatic. Highly ranked by apple connoisseurs. Popular in Europe.

19. McIntosh
First apple tree planted by John McIntosh about 1811.  Two-toned red and green, it is an  all-purpose apple.  Available
September to June.

20. Paula
Don’t miss this late summer apple! Available only into October. Pleasingly tart flavor and good aroma. Great in back-to-school lunches, or early season baking. Discovered in Sparta, Michigan.

21. Four red apples on the tree, Two for you and two for me.
So shake that tree and
Watch them fall.
One, Two, Three, Four - that is all.

22. Red Delicious
America’s most popular apple, known for the “five little bumps” on the bottom. Named when a nurseryman in 1894 exclaimed," My that's delicious!" Discovered over 100 years ago in Iowa.

23. Granny Smith
Granny Smith apples have been cultivated for at least 150 years. Its origin traces to a mess of French crabapples that were tossed out in Grandmother Marie Ana Smith's Australian garden. Smith had found the seedling growing where she had thrown out some apples. She began using the fruit for cooking, and was soon marketing the fruit.

24. Rome
(Rome Beauty) Named for an apple-growing area in Ohio, not Italy.  Slightly tart.  Best for baking.  Available October to August.

25. Northern Spy Intriguing name, yet this apple
is a professional baker’s dream! An antique apple still popular because of tart, acidic properties that cook up well in applesauce, pie and other dishes. A hard apple that ripens late and stores well.

26. Winesap
Granddaddy of American apples!  Wine - like flavor.  All purpose apple.  Available November to July.

27. I know you are good for me. You are fun to snack and munch,
Apple, apple on the tree,
I know you are good for me.
You are fun to snack and munch,
Or for packing in my lunch.

28. It’s applesauce you’ve got.
Peel an apple
Cut it up,
Cook in a pot.
When you taste it
You will find
It’s applesauce you’ve got.

29. Why, five and five make ten!
Apple Poem
Ten Red Apples
Here I have five apples
(hold up five fingers on right hand)
And here are five again.
(hold up both hands.)
How many apples all together?
Why, five and five make ten!