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The Camellia Sinensis Experience

et the word go forth: Montreal’s Camellia Sinensis has just opened North America’s premier tea emporium, a Canadian Mariage Frères or Fortnum & Mason. Such recognition is sure to follow, but the company’s reputation is already securely established. For quality and fair pricing, few tea concerns can equal this 25-year-young partnership, a bilingual “band of brothers,” each specializing in a single tea area. Each one procures the

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