My dear Sir/

The other day I saw a basket of potatos that at once reminded me of D^r Hildebrand¹   I secured a piebald tuber half purple half whitish (or less than half purple) and have desired it to be sent to you   This at any rate is no graft hybrid—it is just one of the pink eyed potatoes w^h. has only been partially colored— whether it is a case of what Naudin would consider dissociation of hybrid characters is another matter—² I doubt very much indeed any graft-hybridization taking place in potatos, the limited duration of the stock and other points would lead me to doubt the practicability of a perfect union by grafting taking place—but I speak theoretically ie not from practical knowledge—

faithfully y^rs | Maxwell. T. Masters

P.S. I ought to add that there is a race of these pie-bald potatos—not merely one individual.