4 NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES, D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 
NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
Pepper—California Wonder 
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Out of the many samples of vegetables submitted to us each year for trial at our Experimental Garden, we 
rarely find any of the new introductions that impress us as favorably as does this new and distinct pepper. 
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_ produc- 
tive, bearing from five to nine 
large fruits at a setting. Al- 
though not strictly an early 
variety, California Wonder will 
produce marketable sized fruits 
as early as the second-early 
sorts. 
While this new pepper pos- 
sesses so many points of excel- 
lence, its most outstanding 
feature is the thickness of flesh. 
In examining hundreds of 
fruits during our seeding oper- 
ations, it was not 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 
CauirorniA Wonver (Actual Size) 
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