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again, its sharper contrasts at rest. A box-tree in June has 

 half the shades of green in its own boughs, where the young 

 leaves fleck and cloud the old ; and some of the most subtle, 

 though not the sharpest contrasts of downland verdure, are 

 to be seen in June, where the box-coverts stand dappled on 

 the old turf of Box Hill, or among the even more beautiful 

 groves of Chequers Park in the Chilterns. 



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