The tribute to John McIntosh appears on a blue plaque near Dundela, Ontario, Photo by Alan L. Brown. The lower plaquue is a tribute to the McIntosh apple, in the center of Dundela, Ontario. Photo by David and Kellie Clifford While John Chapman was gaining his Johnny Appleseed nickname, gathering seeds from cider mills and spreading their unexamined genetics to northeastern and midwestern orchards in the early 1800s, a farmer named John McIntosh was ­transplanting about 20 apple trees he found in his woods to a garden located near his cabin. One of those trees became the McIntosh, which after […]