This issue features the winner of the 2017 Dillon-Peterson Essay Contest, Soraya Cates Para, with her essay entitled Guttata - You Gotta. Ronald Coleman continues his beautifully illustrated three-part series on the cypripediums of the United States and Canada. Part 2 discusses Cyp. acaule, passerinum, reginae and a very rare natural hybrid - × herae. Leon Glicenstein explains the complex Habenaria rhodocheila species complex in a fantastically illustrated, plainly written article. David Rosenfeld continues his series Who Were These Guys? with a feature on John Lindley and Dave Miller discusses Dendrobium unicum and its hybrids. Rounding out our June issue is an excellent Genus of the Month article by Tom Mirenda on the genus Cuitlauzina and Sue Bottom walks us through what to do when those cattleyas simply get away from us.