LONDON SEED MARKET.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 533, 23 August 1881, Page 2

LONDON SEED MARKET.

Mesurs John Shaw & Sons, of 37, Mark Line, London, report, through their agent Mr Leonard W. Blako, of Christchnrch thnt the market during the fortnight ending July 1 was. as usual at this season of the year in a very inactive, uninteresting condition, all consumptive demand being of course fit on end, and no speculation of ■importance having yet ppruug up ; and this in spite of the lightness of stocks," ihe generality of dealers preferring to wait' till something , is known of the prospects of ihe growing crops. What little t>usim\sH had been done the prices made were fully equivalent to values current during llio season. It is early yet to speak of the jTospecls of the new crops; reports of "r" 11 ; _»-11 as 11 red clover and cow grass indicate it with favorable weather an average ' ! may be expected ; while clover genr!onuses -, well, but alsyke will not uing like the large crop it has ling the past three years. Trefoil o&t a failure. For sowing ratisrape seed there was a moderate ill rates ; for canary and hemp o tiade had shrunk to very narrow >rib\ Tho turnip crop in Scotland i i very unsatisfactory condition,

i having to resort to a second, and many cases a third seeding, this was of i> (t using a rise in values of Scotch i)( i 1. The death is announced of Mr ii»i 'Ti ster, of Homford, the raiser of 1 >j j>jft "Sttiigster No 1," which for are has been a household word i. > gardener.