Which famous person travelled around the United States planting apple pips? This is a Pudsey quiz so a donation to Children In Need if I can crack this one. Thanks for your help
In North America the most famous apple-planter was John Chapman or 'Johnny Appleseed'. Born in 1774, he planted seedling nurseries from Pennsylvania in the east through Ohio into Indiana in the west.
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1623 - William Blackstone arrived in Massachusetts from Europe. Historians write that he carried a bag of apple seeds (also called "pips") with him and soon planted an orchard on Beacon Hill in Boston