These fruits were undoubtedly from Martin's Toronto garden.  He was an avid gardener with fruit trees, shrubs of berries as well as many perennial flowers and vegetables. Like Johnny Appleseed, he carried pockets full of seeds of all the items in his garden on his travels into the wilderness, even to sprinkling the Rocky Mountains with tree and flower seeds. Like Johnny Appleseed, he too was of the Swedenborg faith.

Artist, co-founder of Ontario Society of Artists, 1872  first Director of Ontario art school, 1879
Charter member of Royal Canadian Academy of Art, 1880;  Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, 1909;  Canadian Pacific Railway artist 1887-1910