When the cold winters came and the ground was frozen too hard for him to plant his apple seeds, he still saved them, and would often have a small bag full of them by the time that spring returned again. And this is how he came to be called "Old Johnny Appleseed." Though nobody took very much notice of what he was doing, he still continued each day to plant apple seeds and each evening to play on his violin. —"Old Johnny Appleseed," Elizabeth Harrison Based on the folktale, the people who told this story probably thought that was important.