The July issue features the first of a five-part series on modern artificial light and growing orchids authored by Kelly McCracken, owner of High Desert Orchids in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Also featured in the July issue is a “digest” of the species of Vanilla new to science in the last 20 years, a feature article authored by Olaf Gruss on the delightful miniature Paphiopedilum species, Paphiopedilum henryanum and an article on Stanhopea tricornis provided to us by Rudolf Jenny.

Rounding out our July issue

• Tom's Monthly Checklist
• For the Novice -The Usual Suspects - Common Orchid Pests by Sue Bottom
• Conservation Update - Orchid Conservation at Longwood Gardens by Peter Zale, PhD
• The New Refugium Botanicum - Mormolyca ringens (Maxillaria lineolata) by Franco Pupulin
• Collector's Item - Cattleya lueddemanniana  by Tom Gerardo A. Castiglione and Enmanuel Durán Gallego
• Orchids Illustrated - Women Illustrators - Ducky Drake by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
• Past, Present, Future - A report on the judging of the Virtual 23rd WOC by Carol Klonowski