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Group 2. — Triumph, 



Tubers : Roundish ; skin creamy white, with more or less numer- 

 ous splashes of red, or carmine, or solid red; maturing very 

 early. 



Sprouts : Base, leaf scales and tips more or less deeply suffused 

 with reddish violet. 



Flowers : Very light rose-purple. 



Group 3. — Early Michigan. 



Tubers : Oblong or elongate-flattened ; skin white or creamy 

 white, occasionally suffused with pink around bud-eye cluster 

 in Early Albino. 



Sprouts : Base light rose-piu-ple ; tips creamy or light rose-purple. 



Flowers : Wliite. 



Group 4. — Rose Group. 



Tubers : Elongated or oblong, usually flattish at the center and 

 tapering gradually toward each end ; stem and seed end rather 

 blunt. Skin smooth, flesh color. Flesh creamy white, some- 

 times streaked with red. 



Sprouts : Rather long, medium thick, and usually clearly tinted 

 with rose-lilac. 



Group 5. — Early Ohio Group. 



Tubers : Round-oblong with full, rounded seed and stem ends. 



Eyes numerous and rather shallow. Skin or flesh light pink 



with a deeper color around the eyes. 

 Sprouts : Short, much enlarged at the base, color varying from 



carmine-violet to violet-lilac or magenta-lilac. 



Group 6. — Hebron Group. 



Tubers : Elongated, somewhat flattened, \vitli rather blunt ends, 

 occasionally spindle shape. Eyes numerous. Skin creamy 

 white, more or less clouded with flesh color or light pink. 



Sprouts : Very similar to those of the Early Rose Group. 



