ID, IMs TRIBIRUR YC (COs, IDS WROUM, MUN D) 
California Wonder (Actual Size Showing Thickness of Flesh) 
Pepper—California Wonder 
In the continual search for new and better varieties the seedsman’s efforts are rarely so well rewarded as in 
the case of this new pepper. It is not merely a better strain of one of the old varieties but a new and distinct 
variety. It combines the fine quality of the Pimiento and the size of Giant Crimson, with a thickness of flesh 
heretofore unknown in any variety of pepper. 
The fruits are blocky or square-shaped, slightly broader at stem end than at nose, without distinct lobing 
or indentations, and especially free from roughness at blossom end. 
Full grown fruits commonly have a breadth of four inches and a length of four and one-half inches, and it 
isnot unusual to find specimens weighing a full pound. They present the smooth, attractive dark green color 
of the Pimiento when young, turning to bright crimson as they ripen. 
The plants are slightly spreading, sturdy and productive, bearing from five to nine large fruits at a setting. 
Although not strictly an early variety, California Wonder will produce marketable sized fruits as early as the 
second-early sorts. 
While this new pepper possesses so many points of excellence, its most outstanding feature is the thickness 
of flesh. In examining hundreds of fruits during our seeding operations, it has not been uncommon to find fruits 
showing flesh three-eighths of an inch thick. In addition to this thickness of flesh, it is of the finest quality, 
being sweet, crisp and tender and entirely free from pungency. 
For the home gardener, market gardener and shipper this should prove an ideal pepper as it seems so well 
adapted to all of the uses for which sweet peppers are grown. 
(See further description on page 50.) 
Pkt. 10c; Oz. $1.25; 2 Oz. $2.15; 14 Lb. $4.00; Lb. $15.00 
