Description: This divided back postcard depicts the residence of R.P. Butchart in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada — the property that would become the world-famous Butchart Gardens. The view shows the grand manor house surrounded by elaborately planted flower beds in full bloom, with roses climbing trellises and colorful formal garden beds in the foreground. This is an early view of the Butchart estate, of significant historical interest to collectors of Canadian gardening history and British Columbia topographical cards.
Publisher: The Coast Publishing Co., Vancouver, B.C. — card number 69754.
Posted: Posted October 23 (year partially legible from postmark, approximately 1910s). Sent by Fanny P. Beattie to Miss Charlesborough, Caananoca Road, Ashevillle, N.C., U.S.A. Message reads: \"S.S. Empress of Russia — Mission to Japan on our way to India — sailed from Victoria, where we saw this beautiful garden & thought of you — the kids are wonderful. Never saw such a range of fruit or magnolias. Regards, Fanny P. Beattie.\"
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