This month features Birute Anne Vileisis's award-winner article Why I Grow the Orchids I Grow, in which she takes us back in time to when she acquired a seedling of Angraecum longicalcar, her efforts at learning to grow the species efficiently and its ultimate donation to the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens.  David Taft tells us about Isotria verticillata growing on New York's Long Island and, rounding out the issue, Fred Clarke writes about the development of spotted blue cattleyas.