* Johnny Appleseed planted from seed instead of grafting trees in part due due to his Swedenborgian Church beliefs
* Apples are extreme heterozygotes and each newly seeded tree produces very different apples, so you can randomly stumble on some brand-new delicious varieties among many thousands of cider-only trees
* The FBI cut down many of Johnny Appleseed's trees during Prohibition to combat hard cider production (I should probably read the source book for these claims, Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire", because this sounds kind of crazy)
* Johnny Appleseed planted from seed instead of grafting trees in part due due to his Swedenborgian Church beliefs
* Apples are extreme heterozygotes and each newly seeded tree produces very different apples, so you can randomly stumble on some brand-new delicious varieties among many thousands of cider-only trees
* The FBI cut down many of Johnny Appleseed's trees during Prohibition to combat hard cider production (I should probably read the source book for these claims, Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire", because this sounds kind of crazy)