Bill Text: TX HCR24 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Designating Nacogdoches as the official Garden Capital of Texas.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 28-11)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-02 - Signed by the Governor [HCR24 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HCR24-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.C.R. No. 24
 
 
 
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
 
         WHEREAS, The Lone Star State is renowned for the beauty and
  diversity of its many public gardens and parks, and for the
  dedication of Texans in preserving and sustaining these oases of
  greenery; and
         WHEREAS, While outstanding gardens can be found in many
  communities throughout the state, the city of Nacogdoches is
  deserving of particular recognition for the number and variety of
  its green and flowering public spaces; and
         WHEREAS, Nacogdoches is located on the site of a village once
  occupied by the Nacogdoche Indians, a group of the Caddo people,
  whose culture was based on farming and gardening; a Spanish mission
  was established there in 1716 and continued in existence for the
  better part of six and a half decades; the town has been a civil
  settlement since 1779, and its situation at the crossroads of two
  Spanish colonial highways, El Camino Real and El Calle del Norte,
  made it an early center of multicultural exchange; as early as 1853,
  the city's gardens were noted in the diary of a famous visitor,
  Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed New
  York's Central Park; and
         WHEREAS, Today, Nacogdoches helps to preserve the state's
  horticultural heritage through re-creations of traditional gardens
  at the Durst-Taylor Historic House and Gardens, the Sterne-Hoya
  House Museum and Library, Millard's Crossing Historic Village, the
  Old University Building, and the Spanish Religious Plaza; and
         WHEREAS, The city's splendid green spaces also include
  Eugenia Sterne Park, Margil Park, along the Lanana Creek Trail, the
  Zion Hill Baptist Church and Oak Grove Cemeteries, and the Pocket
  Park and the Plaza Principal in the historic downtown; the Liberty
  Memorial Garden, along Banita Creek, commemorates with dignity and
  grace the lives lost during the tragic events of 9/11; and
         WHEREAS, Nacogdoches is home to Stephen F. Austin State
  University, which is landscaped with overstory and ornamental trees
  to maintain the Pineywoods ecosystem and natural beauty of the
  campus; the university's 128 acres of gardens include the SFA Mast
  Arboretum, the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, the Gayla Mize
  Garden, the Jim and Beth Kingham Children's Garden, the Sustainable
  Community Education Garden, and the Crape Myrtle Garden, which
  together feature the largest botanical collection in Texas of bald
  cypress, boxwood, camellias, gardenias, hollies, hydrangeas,
  magnolias, and maples; each year, the SFA Gardens hosts programs
  that educate 17,000 people in sustainable gardening and the
  preservation of native plants, while the Nacogdoches Independent
  School District supports initiatives that encourage its students to
  grow and study gardens on their school grounds; and
         WHEREAS, Home of the annual 22-mile Nacogdoches Azalea Trail
  each March, the community was named the first Azalea City of America
  by the Azalea Society of America in 2004 and was recertified in
  2012; the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden on the SFA campus is the
  largest such garden in the state, with more than 520 species and
  cultivars on display; the Master Gardeners Club Demonstration
  Garden, on the former site of Aqua Vitae Park, was developed by the
  Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service on behalf of the city and
  Nacogdoches County; and
         WHEREAS, The thoughtful cultivation of the splendor of nature
  is one of the most sublime expressions of the human spirit, and the
  skill and devotion with which the city of Nacogdoches has for many
  years showcased its lovely trees and flowering plants is indeed
  deserving of special recognition; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas
  hereby designate Nacogdoches as the official Garden Capital of
  Texas.
 
 
Clardy Ashby
 
Bell Bonnen of Galveston
 
Button Canales
 
Capriglione Collier
 
Cortez Frank
 
M. Gonzalez of El Paso N. Gonzalez of El Paso
 
Guerra Kacal
 
King of Hemphill Krause
 
Lavender Leach
 
Longoria Miller of Fort Bend
 
Nevarez Paddie
 
Perez Raney
 
Ratliff Rose
 
Sanford Schaefer
 
Sheffield of Coryell Simmons
 
Simpson Springer
 
Stephenson Stickland
 
Thompson of Brazoria Toth
 
Villalba Wu
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.C.R. No. 24 was adopted by the House on April
  3, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.C.R. No. 24 was adopted by the Senate on
  April 18, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor       
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