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Line 144: [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] often uses John Appleseed as a generic name for their products, obviously taking hints at Johnny's name. [[Urbana University]] in Urbana, Ohio, maintains one of two Johnny Appleseed museums in the world, which is open to the public. The Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum hosts a number of artifacts, as well as trees that are descended from the same trees originally planted by Johnny Appleseed.<ref name="Republican 2017">{{cite web | last=Republican | first=Journal | title=Johnny Appleseed tree planted at museum | website=Journal Republican | date=25 October 2017 | url=https://www.journal-republican.com/news/johnny-appleseed-tree-planted-at-museum/article_04cc8492-5e0f-5c5c-9b48-b968de2467aa.html | access-date=1 June 2023}}</ref> They also provide a number of services for research, including a national registry of Johnny Appleseed's relatives. In 2011, the museum was renovated and updated. The educational center and museum was founded{{by whom|date=January 2021}} on the belief that those who have the opportunity to study the life of Johnny Appleseed will share his appreciation of education, his country, the environment, peace, moral integrity, and [[leadership]].{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}<ref>Compare: {{cite web|url= http://www.nationalapplemuseum.com/johnny.html|title= National Apple Museum|work= nationalapplemuseum.com|access-date= February 11, 2011|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101229010144/http://www.nationalapplemuseum.com/johnny.html|archive-date= December 29, 2010|url-status= live | quote = The Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum, sponsored by the Johnny Appleseed Society and Urbana University, seeks to promote the ideals by which Johnny Appleseed lived and to memorialize the many roles he played in the development of the Northwest Territory.}}</ref> Supposedly, the only surviving tree planted by Johnny Appleseed grows on the farm of Richard and Phyllis Algeo of [[Nova, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Fruit Trees|url= http://virginiaberryfarm.com/Fruit_berry_plants/fruit_trees.htm|website= Virginia Berry Farm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090228232326/http://virginiaberryfarm.com/Fruit_berry_plants/fruit_trees.htm|archive-date= February 28, 2009}}</ref> Some marketers claim that it is a [[Rambo apple|Rambo]];<ref>{{cite web|title= Kootenai National Forest - Home|url= http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/kootenai/projects/environmental/nepa/qrtly_files/qrtly699.pdf|publisher= Fs.fed.us|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060304204324/https://www.fs.fed.us/r1/kootenai/projects/environmental/nepa/qrtly_files/qrtly699.pdf|archive-date= March 4, 2006|access-date= June 6, 2015}}</ref> some even make the claim that the Rambo was "Johnny Appleseed's favorite variety",<ref>{{cite web|title= Virginia Apple Growers Association|url= http://www.virginiaapples.org/kids/appleseed.html|publisher= Virginiaapples.org|access-date= June 6, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070703090455/http://www.virginiaapples.org/kids/appleseed.html|archive-date= July 3, 2007|url-status= live}}</ref> ignoring the fact that he had religious objections to [[grafting]] and preferred wild apples to all named varieties. It appears that most nurseries are calling the tree the "Johnny Appleseed" variety, rather than a Rambo.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} Unlike the mid-summer Rambo, the Johnny Appleseed variety ripens in September and is a baking-applesauce variety similar to an [[Newtown Pippin|Albemarle Pippin]]. Nurseries offer the Johnny Appleseed tree as an immature apple tree for planting, with scions from the Algeo stock grafted on them.<ref name="historictrees"> | |||