DRY-LAND GARDENING AT MANDAN, N. DAK. 
THE VARIETIES USED 
Preliminary work at the field station from 1913 to 1918 brought 
out the fact that certain types and varieties were more dependable 
and gave better average results than others. In general it was found 
that varieties making the most of their growth during June and July, 
when the moisture is most abundant and the days fairly cool, succeeded 
best. Some varieties also proved more resistant to disease than 
others. The Earliana variety of tomatoes, the Copenhagen Market 
and the Wakefield varieties of cabbage, the Golden Bantam and the 
Cory varieties of sweet corn, and the Globe varieties of onions may be 
cited as examples of especially dependable varieties. 
To extend the season of each vegetable, succession plantings of the 
most suitable variety were found in most cases to be preferred to one 
planting of two or more varieties of different season, and in the station 
Fig. 2.— Sweet corn, cauliflower, and cabbage in the leaf-crop plat of the acre garden on July 25, 1924 
garden the practice of two plantings of vegetables that do not require 
the entire season has been followed. 
The following varieties of vegetables were selected for the garden 
project at the field station as representative of dependable standard 
varieties carried by most seed firms: 
Asparagus: Reading Giant. 
Bean, wax-pod — Burpee's Saddleback, Kidney Wax; shell, or navy — Pilot. 
Beets, early bunching — Eclipse; fall — Detroit Dark Red. 
Cabbage, early — Copenhagen Market, Jersey Wakefield; fall — Copenhagen 
Market (late planted), Danish Roundhead. 
Carrots: Chantenay. 
Cauliflower, early — Burpee's Best Early, Dwarf Erfurt; fall — Snowball (late 
planted), Dry Weather. 
Celery: Golden Self-Blanching, Fordhook. 
Cucumbers: Fordhook Famous (White Spine variety). 
Eggplant: Black Beauty. 
Lettuce, leaf — Black-Seeded Simpson, Grand Rapids; head — Way ahead, 
Salamander, Hanson. 
