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AMEKICAN potatoes: CLASSIFICATION AND DESCEIPTIONS. 23 



Dykeman. Synonyms, Early Pinkeye, Round Pinkeye. (Group 11.) Listed by 

 Pliaro as a seedling of promiscuoTis hybridized seed. 



Description. — Season early. Plant of medium strength and vigor, rarely pro- 

 ducing seed or blossoms. Tubers large, roundish, often oblong; eyes moderately 

 sunken and rather numerous; skin white, clouded with purple at the stem end 

 and about the eyes; flesh white or yellowish white. Reference: Field and 

 Garden Vegetables, vol. 1, 1863, p. 61. 



Early Aane. See Acme, Earlt. 



Early Albino. (See also Early White Albino.) (Group 3.) Originated by L. H. 

 Read, Cabot, Vt. ; claimed to be a new seedling from a cross between Early Ohio 

 and Snowflake. Introduced in 1887. References: Angell & Co. 's seed catalogue, 

 1895, p. 27; E. W. Burbank Seed Co.'s catalogue, 1895, p. 16. 



Description. — Season early; as early as Hebron. Tubers long, round, slightly 

 flattened; eyes medium; skin buff white. Reference: Rural New Yorker, vol. 

 46, 1887, p. 243. Frank Ford & Sons describe it as follows: "Very early; \T.nes 

 medium height and stocky. Tubers oblong, oval; eyes few with a slight pink 

 tint; skin creamy white, thickly netted." Reference: Frank Ford & Sons' seed 

 catalogue, 1888, p. 22. 



Note. — The latter description is more accurate than the former, particularly 

 with respect to the pink tint around the eyes. 



Early Beauty of Hebron. See Beauty of Hebron, Early. 



Early Bird. Origin not given. 



Description. — Vines very strong, healthy, very hardy, free from blight, inclined 

 to be decumbent; foliage rather light colored. Tubers rather long and blunt at the 

 ends, with nearly round cross section, regular in shape and free from knobs and 

 prongs; skin creamy white; flesh pure pearly white. Reference: Darling & 

 Beahan's seed catalogue, 1909, p. 52. 



Note. — The tubers secured by the Department of Agriculture from Darling & 

 Beahan as Early Bird do not answer to the above description with respect to the 

 color of skin, as the stem end is more or less suffused with pink. 



Early Bovee. Synonym of Bovee. 



Early Breakfast. Claimed to be a new seedling. 



Description. — Similar to Early Michigan in time of ripening, shape, and color. 

 Vines stronger and not so subject to blight. Tubers inclined to grow larger and 

 have a more russet skin. Reference: Darling & Beahan's seed catalogue, 1908, 

 p. 6. 



Early Dixie. (Group 1.) Origin not given. 



Description. — R,ipen8 early. Vines moderately vigorous. Tubers round; eyes 

 few, somewhat indented; skin pearly white. Resembles Irish Cobbler in shape 

 and color, but i.s at least 10 days or 2 weeks earlier. Reference: Wood, Stubbs 

 & Co.'s seed catalogue, 1913, p. 34. 



Note. — Practically identical with Irish Cobbler. 



Early Durham. (Group 4, section 1.) Originated by C. E. Allen, Brattleboro, \'t.; 

 claimed to be a Heo<lIing of Early Rose. 



Description.— HaoHon early; matures two weeks earlier than ICarly Rose and is 

 more vigorous and prolific. Somewhat reHembics Early Rose in appearance, l)iit 

 is HO decidedly ligliU-r folor(;d as t<j be entirc-ly distinct. Refcirences: (Uiltivator 

 and Country Gentleman, vol. 44, 1879, p. 774; vol. 45, 1880, p. 23. The Rural 

 New Yorker say.'*, "Oblong, ofU;n ratluir small at botli ends, as shown in fig. 158; 

 eyes medium in number and not deej); skin liglit; flesh yellowisii white." 

 Roferonfe: Kiiral New Yorker, vol, 45, 1886, j). 249. 



