SEED GROWERS 47 
PEPPER 
To indicate the relative earliness of the varieties of pepper, we have stated the num- 
ber of days commonly required under ordinary favorable conditions near Detroit to 
produce a picking of marketable green peppers, calculating from the time well-grown 
young plants are set in the field late in May or early in June. It requires 6—8 weeks to 
produce young plants for the field, 
Days 
from 
Setting 
of 
ANAHEIM Plants 
Particularly adapted to the South. Popular in home and market gardens and 78 
grown on commercial scale for drying and canning. Fruits 6—8 in. long, about 
an inch through; tapered; deep green becoming rich scarlet; mildly pungent. 
CALIFORNIA WONDER : 
(Sweet) Large green fruits available practically as early as Ruby King. This 12 
is the standard of excellence in sweet peppers; much used, particularly by 
market growers and shippers. Plant thrifty, upright, heavily productive over 
a long season. Fruits handsome, very large, very smooth and regular; commonly 
414 in. long and 314—4 in. through; deep green, becoming bright crimson; 
flesh extremely thick and firm, sweet throughout and of distinct flavor. Our 
stock is definitely superior. 
CHINESE GIANT 
(Sweet) The largest sweet pepper. Fruits 414—5 in. long and of equal diameter ; 80 
roundish, blunt at the ends; somewhat crumpled; deep green, becoming bright 
scarlet-red; mild and sweet throughout. 
FLORAL GEM 
(Hot) Heavily productive early pungent pepper. Fruits about 34 to 1 inch 68 
thick and from 11% to 2 inches long; bluntly conical; waxy green turning to 
deep scarlet. Used mainly in California but of the same adaptability as other 
hot varieties. 
HARRIS’ EARLY GIANT 
(Sweet) The best very early sweet pepper for home and market gardens, par- 63 
ticularly in the North. Plants vigorous, erect, extremely prolific. Fruits large, 
44 in. long, 314 in. through, very slightly tapered; deep green becoming 
brilliant red; sweet. 

Pepper, World Beater 
