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Jerome B. Rice Seed Co. 
California Wonder Worldbeater 
Pepper 
CULTURE —The hot varieties are useful in mixed pickles, while the larger 
fruited sorts are used in many ways. Sow the seed in hotbeds early in April 
and transplant to the open ground when all danger of frost is over. Peppers 
should be planted in a warm, mellow soil in rows 18 inches apart each way 
and given the best of cultivation at all times. 
1 ounce will produce 1500 plants 
Sweet Varieties 
CALIFORNIA WONDER (75 days) —Resembles Chinese Giant in the large 
size and “blocky” form of its fruit, but having an extremely thick, mild, 
sweet flesh not possessed by that variety. Fruit indistinctly 4-lobed, up¬ 
right, crimson, measuring 4^ inches in length by 4 inches in diameter. 
Rather late in maturing. ( Illustrated above and page 67.) 
CHINESE GIANT (80 days)—One of the very largest of the mild red varie¬ 
ties Plant of short, stocky growth, with light green foliage; fruits pendent, 
thick, blocky and square ended, 4 to 5 inches in diameter and of equal 
length; color brilliant glossy scarlet. 
EARLY GIANT, HARRIS* (63 days) —The earliest and most prolific of the 
large peppers and a real acquisition. It matures its fruit but slightly later 
than Harris’ Earliest, is of dwarf, compact growth, bearing as many as 12 
pendent fruits on a single plant. Scarlet fruit measuring 5 inches long by 
3% inches in diameter, 3-lobed; mild and sweet. 
