Characteristics
- Purpose: frying (early season); boil and bake possible
- Growth Type: determinate
- Maturity: early to medium, shorter than Kennebec
- Dormancy: short
- Vine: medium, spreading
- Leaves: large
- Flowers: numerous, large, light violent with white tips
- Eyes: shallow to medium deep; well distributed
- Tubers: oblong to long, slightly flattened; smooth, thin, lightly-netted skin (considered a long-white)
- Set: late-setting but bulk rapidly; may oversize
- Specific Gravity: low to medium; low end for frying
- Sugar: low increases in storage; good frier, lighter than Russet Burbank
- Stem End Discoloration: sugar end is common defect
- External Defects: mis-shapes and over-sizes
- Internal Defects: resistant to hollow heart
- Yields: medium; in Canada, just less than Kennebec
- Disease susceptibility: susceptible to all viruses, early and late blights, early dying and pink eye, and moderately so to common scab
- Disease tolerance: tolerant to dry rot and wilt, stem canker, and net necrosis
- Herbicide: very susceptible to metribuzin injury
- Other: tolerant to heat stress; difficult to desiccate prior to senescence
