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【英文原文】
摘要：蘋果籽約翰尼的真名叫約翰•恰普曼，由于在邊疆地區種了大量蘋果樹而被后人懷念。他少年時代的事跡不詳，但后來據說他用了50年時間走遍賓西法尼亞，俄亥俄和印第安納，到處播種蘋果樹。
Johnny Appleseed is the nickname of a man whose real name was John Chapman, an American pioneer who planted large numbers of apple trees along the early frontier. Nothing is known about his childhood. According to legend, for almost fifty years, Johnny Appleseed walked through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. Everywhere he went he carried bags of apple seeds and planted them. He also gave apple seeds and apple saplings to everyone he met. He is said to have planted thousands of seeds during his travels. Thousands of settlers came to know this strange, lonely man. He had a tin pot as a hat, a coffee sack as a shirt, and no shoes, looking like a scarecrow. Some nights he spent at farmhouses, and told stories for his supper. Other times he camped out alone in the fields and woods. No harm ever came to Johnny Appleseed in his lonely travel through the wilderness. The Indians knew him and treated him as a friend, and even the wild animals left him alone. Johnny Appleseed was a religious man, and he loved nature. He believed it his duty to go up and down the land planting apple seeds. He wanted Americans to enjoy the beauty and delicious fruit of the apple trees.
