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scented dowers, suitable either for garden or pot 
culture, it is certainly one of the most desirable of 
all flowers. I recommend starting seed under glass 
and transplanting to the garden about the first of 
June. For pot culture a four or five inch pot is 
suitable for one plant. 
Per Pkt. 
Early Ten Weeks —12 finest colors, mixed... .10 
“ “ “ —Pure White, very sweet. .10 
“ “ “ —Crimson.10 
“ “ “ •—Blue.10 
“ “ “ —Yellow, new and fine... .10 
One paper each of above four colors, 25 cts. 
VERBENA. 
Verbenas in quantity are more easily obtained 
from seed than from cuttings, and there is, more¬ 
over, a chance of raising novelties. Sown in spring, 
they flower quite early in 
the season, and a single 
plant, in good rich soil, 
will cover a space three to 
four feet in diameter, pro¬ 
ducing, if the flowers are 
cut as soon as they begin 
to fade, a mass of bloom 
until killed by frost. 
Gdorata Verbena 
(see Novelties.) 
Striped Verbena— 
Beautiful striped varie¬ 
ties, of brilliant shades 
and colors. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Fine Mixed — This is 
an excellent selection and 
you ought to sow it. Pkt. 
VERBENA. 10 cts. 
ZINNIA. 
The Double Zinnias are remarkable for the large 
size, and beauty of their flowers, and for duration 
and profuseness of bloom. 
Choice Double Mixed —Pkt. 5 cts. 
New Ponipone — The 
flowers are remarkably 
fine, most perfect in form 
and varied in color. The 
florets are piled in a sym¬ 
metrical, smooth cone, 
perfect to the very tip. 
The colors range from 
pure white, through 
breams and buffs, to a 
clear chrome yellow. 
Then, again, there is a 
series of tints ranging 
from the softest pinks to 
tbe deepest crimsons, and 
fiery coppers and reds; 
and some are curiously 
zinnia. two colored. Pkt. 10 cts. 
MY SURPRISE COLLECTION. 
To meet the demand of my large trade, I am 
obliged to grow enormous stocks of all kinds of 
Plants, and Seeds, often more than necessary, to 
make sure of having enough. This surplus is 
either wasted or sold to wholesale buyers for less 
than cost, and it has occurred to me that it would 
be a good plan, after the heavy Spring business is 
about over, (in May,) to take my surplus stock of 
various good things, make them into “Surprise” 
Collections and offer them to my customers, giving 
them 3 or 4 times the value of their money. In 
fact the “Surprise” is in the great amount of fine 
things you get for the money paid. These collec¬ 
tions cannot be sent out until about the first of 
May, and will be entirely of my own selection from 
kinds of which I have a surplus. No collection 
will be made up for less than One Dollar, and 
from that up to any amount the purchaser may de¬ 
sire. They will be sent free by mail, unless de¬ 
sired by express, and in that case I can send very 
much more for the money than by mail. All 
“Surprise” Collections ordered previous to May 
1st will be booked and shipped them, but I can 
continue sending them up to the first of July. I 
advise my friends to invest a dollar or more in this 
collection. I can guarantee that you will be 
greatly pleased for the large amount of things you 
will receive from the amount invested. 
50 Packets Vegetable Seeds $1.00. 
My crop of Garden Seeds the past season has 
been very large, so I am offering Fifty Packets, 
regular size, of my own selection by mail, postpaid, 
for $1.00. The collection contains New Beets, 
Beans, Corn, Cucumbers, Cabbage, Peas, Toma¬ 
toes, Squashes, Lettuce, Radish, Carrot, Celery, 
Melons, Onions, and most all other kinds you can 
think of. If you cannot use them all this year 
they are new and will be just as good for several 
years. I make this offer to close out surplus stock 
of many kinds. 
Sicaneateles Falls, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1889. 
F. B. Mills, Esq., Bear Sir :—I planted the 
simple of Gold Coin Oats in a drill in April, they 
grew up strong and healthy, and as far as I can 
judge they are an excellent new kind. 
Yours truly, THOS. OGDEN. 
Chadd’s Fobd, Pa., Oct. 9,1889. 
F. B Mills, Respected Friend —Your letter of 5th 
inst. received. The sample of Gold Coin Oats you 
sent me grew well; straw was long, stood up well, 
and the heads were extra long and well filled. 
They are sure to be one of the leading Oats as soon 
as you offer them for sale. 
Very truly, THOS. FI. BRINTON. 
QTT'TT'“r\Q”® R1EAT $s 
1* al l M I I J large quantity of the following choice and valuable seeds the past season, 
K t —a —Ld _E —A J Z N —’ and in order to introduce them, with my wonderful new peas, I make the 
following great oiler : For $1 I will send a box, postpaid, containing one packet each of the following New 
and Improved Seeds and one packet of the Golden Sugar Peas, the greatest variety yet introduced and 
offered this year for the first time. Pods are eatable and of immense size. Lentz Beet, earliest and best. 
Crystal White Wax Beans, best fur early garden use. Golden Cluster Wax Pole Beans, best early pole bean. 
Winmngstadt Cabbage, one ot the best. Large Flat Dutch Cabbage, best late variety. Long Green Cucum¬ 
ber, best for table use. Nichols' Med.um Green Cucumber, best for pickles. Early Conqueror Sweet Corn, 
largest early kind and very choice. Mills’ Improved Evergreen Sweet Corn, best large late variety. 
Improved While Rice Pop Corn, an excellent variety. Golden Heart Celery, one of tbe best. Mills’ Cab¬ 
bage I-Iead Lettuce, best kind in tbe world. Vick’s Early Water Melon, an excellent kind and ahead of all 
others. Princess Musk Melon, tbe best flavored,easiest to grow and will please everyone. Yellow Danvers 
Onion, the best for general use. Hollow Crown Parsnip, the very best kind. Golden Dawn Pepper, will 
please everyone, best ever seen. Sugar Pumpkin, one of tbe best In the world for garden use. Mills’ 
Improved American Wonder Peas, a wonderful kind and a sight worth seeing when growing, Guerande 
Carrot, the favorite of all. Early Round Dark Red Radish, best and earliest. Shepherd Radish,best Summer 
variety. Bush Summer Crookneck Squash, best early kind. White Pineapple Squash, good for pies, keeps 
all winter. Cardinal Tomato, best large smooth kind. Golden Queen Tomato, be3t and finest yellow kind 
ever introduced. Early White Six Weeks Turnip, best and earliest kind. Large White Ruta Baga Turnip, 
best for table use. Mignonette, a large flowering kind of sweet fragrance. Sweet Peas, mixed, the hand¬ 
somest mixed variety ever seen. Mills’ Mixed Pansies, best strain of mixed Pansies in the world. Poppy, 
double red, bright as fire. Zinnia, double mixed, double as a dahlia, bright as a rose. 34 full-size packets, 
postpaid, $1. Six boxes, $5. Beautiful catalogue tree, offering hundreds of choice seeds and describing ibo 
wonderlnl No. 10 Potato, Gold Coin Oats, Potter’s Superb Sugar Corn, and Tree Tomato—which grows 10 ft. 
high. No other seed catalogue cont ins these kinds. Send registered letter, express order, or P. O. money 
order on Skaneateles, N. Y. Address plainly F. B. MILLS, Seedsman, Thorn Hill. Onondaga Co.. N. Y. 
