But Mr. Blaney, assistant director at the nonprofit Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Center, says a native Canadian variety deserves to be on the note instead.

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With top notes of mandarin, grapefruit and neroli, it awakens the senses like an amuse-bouche, before revealing lingering notes of Iris pallida (a sweetly scented variety native to Italy).

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Music is also available through 7digital's native applications on a variety of device types and operating systems including RIM devices.

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The "Natural Mojave" galleries simulate flash floods and expose the variety of native wildlife that calls this desert home, from Gila monsters to big brown bats.

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"A greater variety of native trees was needed to cover a longer flowering season to extend the supply of insects for the bats, " said Mr Whitehead.

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Phoenix's Native-American art shops and taco restaurants offer pockets of variety, but generic food chains such as International House of Pancakes and Pizza Hut still dominate.

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Certainly that is what it looks like today, to me, as a Wisconsin native and a long-tenured journalist there who has continued to track the Badger State for a variety of business and other publications even after moving on.

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