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| Great Divide. (Group 9, section 1.) Originated by F. B. Van Ornam, Lewis, Cass 
Co., Iowa, in 1887. Claimed to be a seedling of Early Ohio crossed with old 
California. Introduced by W. A. Burpee in 1894. 
Description.—Season medium to late. Vines stout, erect, branching direct 
from the main stem; leaves abundant, dark green. Tubers oblong, round; eyes 
numerous, shallow; skin very white; flesh very white. References: W. A. Bur- 
pee’s Farm Annual, 1894, pp. 30-31; Van Ornam’s ‘‘Potatoes for Profit,’’? 1896, 
p. 76. 
Great Eastern. Originated by E. S. Brownell, Essex Junction, Vt., in 1880; 
| claimed to be a seedling of Excelsior crossed with Peachblow. Introduced by 
J. M. Thorburn & Co. in 1885. 
Description.—Season medium early. Vines medium height, stocky and 
healthy; leaves dark green and free from disease. Tubers oval and somewhat 
flattened, free from prongs; eyes few and shallow; skin white; flesh white. [ef- 
erences: Rural New Yorker, vol. 44, 1885, p. 265; American Garden, vol. 6, 1885, 
p. 22; J. M. Thorburn & Co.’s seed catalogue, 1886, p. 32. 
Green Mountain. (Group 8, section 1.) Originated by O. H. Alexander, Char- 
lotte, Vt., in 1878; claimed to be a seedling from a cross between Dunmore and 
Excelsior. Introduced by J. A. Everitt & Co. in 1885. 
Description.—Season medium late. Vines vigorous, foliage deep green. Tubers 
short and chunky, flattened, and not very regular; eyes sometimes slightly, some- 
times considerably depressed; skin nearly white; flesh white, fine grained. 
References: Rural New Yorker, vol. 43, 1884, p. 729; American Garden, vol. 6, 
1885, p. 102; Cultivator and Country Gentleman, vol. 51, 1886, p. 280; J. A. Ever- 
itt’s seed catalogue, 1895, p. 60; Angell Seed Co.’s Manual, 1899, p. 20. 
Note.—The following description seems to represent more adequately the 
Green Mountain at the present time: Vines vigorous, healthy, considerably 
branched; foliage heavy, medium green; stems light green; flowers abundant, 
white. Tubers large, short-oblong to oblong, broad, flattened; eyes medium in 
number and size, shallow to medium in depth; skin creamy white or buff white, 
occasionally splashed with russet toward seed end, generally well netted. 
Green Mountain, Jr. (Group 8, section 1.) Originated by W. E. Johnson, Rich- 
mond, Me., in 1905; claimed to be an inbred Green Mountain (that is, from a seed 
ball grown on Green Mountain pollinized with Green Mountain). The originator 
says, ‘‘Practically a thoroughbred or purebred.”’ Introduced by the Johnson 
Seed Potato Co. 
Description.—Season late. Vines much branched and vigorous; leaves broad, 
dark green; blossoms white with yellow centers; tubers round to oblong, some- 
what flattened; eyes shallow; skin a trifle whiter than that of its parent and more 
netted. Sprouts white and stubby in the spring and do not grow very long. Réefer- 
ence: Johnson Seed Potato Co.’s catalogue, 1911, p. 5. 
Note.—So far as the writer’s experience with this variety goes, it does not appear 
to possess qualities superior to those of its parent. 
Gurney’s White Harvest. See WuiteE Harvest, GURNEY’S. 
Hall’s Early Peachblow. See Earty Peacusiow, HAtt’s. 
Hampden Beauty. Ross Bros. and Frank Ford & Sons claim that this variety 
originated in Vermont, while Aaron E. Low says that it originated in Hampden 
County, Mass. Its name would indicate that the latter assumption is correct. 
4 Claimed to be a sport of Beauty of Hebron. Introduced as a novelty in 1886. 
; Description.—Season early. Vines stocky and thrifty. Tubers oblong-oval, me- 
4 dium to large; eyes numerous (A. W. Livingston says ‘“‘few”), shallow; skin 
white, finely netted, smooth; flesh white, solid, References: A. W. Livingston’s 
