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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: thickets of shrubs and ever-greens to be cut into and cleared at the
new owner's pleasure, are the qualities to be sought for in your
chosen land. Nothing is more delightful than a succession of small
lawns, opening one out of the other through tall hedges; these have
all the charm of the old bowling-green repeated, do not require the
labour of many trimmers, and afford a series of changes. You must
have much lawn against the early summer, so as to have a great field
of daisies, the year's morning frost; as you must have a wood of
lilacs, to enjoy to the full the period of their blossoming.
Hawthorn is another of the Spring's ingredients; but it is even best
to have a rough public lane at one side of your enclosure which, at
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