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The Butchart
Gardens cover 55 acres of a 130-acre estate east of Victoria, on
Vancouver Island. The Gardens were begun by Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pim
Butchart in an effort to beautify a worked-out quarry site. Mr.
Butchart, a pioneer in the manufacture of Portland cement in Canada, was
General Manager of a Cement Company having its plant nearby. The
quarry, its limestone exhausted, offended Mrs. Butchart's sensitive feeling
of beauty and she resolved to include it in her plans for landscaping their
home grounds. Thus began a "gardening" experiment that was soon to
have far reaching results. Through the skillful mixture of rare and
exotic shrubs, trees and plants, often personally collected by Mr. & Mrs.
Butchart during their extensive world travels, the now world famous Sunken
Gardens was created. The Gardens, begun as a hobby by Mr. & Mrs. Butchart, were constantly expanded, spilling over into the Rose, Italian, and Japanese Gardens. Today, the horticulture excellence achieved by the Butcharts is viewed by more than a million visitors each year.
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