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SIR JOSEPH BANKSi 
8. David Bcrtox. 
Governor Phillip* says he was brought up as a gardener, and was 
sent out in the “ Gorgon ” (22nd September, 1791) as a “ Superinten- 
dant.” 
He was styled “ the public gardener ” at Parramatta, and it is 
stated that he was sent out by Banks, but I have seen no Banksian 
memorandum about him. 
“ The following parcels of land were in cultivation at Parramatta, 
in November, 1791, . . . . The above grounds were measured 
by David Burton, the public gardener, who observes that the soil 
in most places is remarkably good, and only wants cultivation to be 
fit for any use, for the ground that has been the longest in cultivation 
bears the best crops.” (Hunter, page 562.) 
A report by Burton on some land near Parramatta, will be found 
at Hist. Rec., i (2), 599. 
He was killed 13th April, 1792, by a gun-shot wound when duck- 
shooting on the banks of the Nepean. He was evidently much 
esteemed. 
“ This young man, on account of the talents he possessed as a 
botanist, and the services which he was capable of rendering in the 
sur\’«ying line, could be but ill spared in this settlement.” (Collins, 
1st ed., 205; 2nd ed., 164.) 
He is credited in Aiton’s “ Hortus Kewensis ” with having introduced 
Podolobium trilohatum to cultivation. 
Britten and Boulger, page 28, quote Salisbury, “Parad. Bond.”, f. 73, 
as giving a reference to Burton. The Burtonia of Sahsbury is Hibbertia. 
The Burtonia of Robert Bro^vn is a leguminous genus. 
• Hist. Rec., i (2), 599. 
