The potomac potato

Summary

Potomac is a selection from a cross of Rural New Yorker × Katahdin. At Oakland, Maryland, it has yielded more than the standard Smooth Rural variety, and at Pocomoke, Maryland, as much as or more than the standard Dakota Red variety. Preliminary tests indicate that similar results may be expected in other localities with similar climatic conditions.

It is believed that Potomac will be a valuable potato variety where a high-yielding, late-maturing round white potato is desired. It possesses good baking qualities and has moderate vine and tuber resistance to late blight and to the flea beetle, leafhopper, and tipburn complex.