AMERICAN POTATOES: CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTIONS. 13 
maturing. Plate XIX illustrates two typical tubers of the Improved 
~ Peachblow. 
_ Description.—Vines strong, erect, healthy, vigorous, and deep rooted. Stems 
_ large, strong, woody, and medium green in color. Leaves medium in abundance, 
rather thick, rugose or crumpled, medium to large in size and rather dark green. 
J Flowers usually abundant, purple, and inclined to set fruit rather freely when con- 
ditions are favorable. Tubers round to round-flattened or round-oblong. Eyes 
x medium to numerous and shallow to deep, depending upon the variety, invariably 
_ suffused with carmine or crimson, the intensity of which is more or less variable. 
_ Skin creamy white to white splashed with crimson or magenta, or flesh colored or 
- light to dark pink, in the case of the McCormick and the Perfect Peachblow. Sprouts 
~ have base, leaf scales, and tips of reddish violet. 
The varieties belonging to this group are as follows: 
Dykeman. New Improved Peachblow (Nich- 
Early Peachblow (Hall’s). ol’s). 
Extra-Early Peachblow. New White Peachblow (Thor- 
Improved Peachblow (Rand’s, PI. burn’s). 
XIX). Nott’s Peachblow. 
Jersey Peachblow. Perfect Peachblow (Rand’s). 
McCormick. | White Peachblow. 
VARIETAL DESCRIPTIONS. 
The accompanying varietal descriptions, except where otherwise 
indicated, have all been obtained from the sources of information 
mentioned in the references. This information is not always stated 
in exactly the same order in which it occurs in the book, magazine, or 
seed catalogue from which it is taken, changes being necessary in 
order to follow a logical sequence in the presentation of available 
facts. The list here presented includes only about one-fifth of the 
varieties upon which data have been collated. In determining which 
varieties should be included in this list, the writer has tried to keep in 
mind the present or the past commercial importance of the variety, 
its value from the standpoint of the plant breeder, and its general 
interest to the older potato enthusiasts. Doubtless in the process of 
selection some varieties have been included which could have been 
dispensed with, while others have been left out which should have 
been included. Where comments have been made by the writer, 
and particularly where there has been a suggestion of criticism as to 
the renaming of an old variety or its resemblance to an existing one, 
it has been done with the intention of directing the reader’s attention 
to these points. The main object in publishing these data is to make 
available such information as it has been possible to collect during the 
past ten years. It is important that the plant breeder should know 
the parentage of the varieties with which he is working, in order that 
_ he may have some idea as to what can be expected from the union of 
any given parents. It is equally desirable that the potato specialist 
and the up-to-date grower should have at hand the original published 
