Our May issue features the completion of Bob Sprague's Valmont Bog Update series, a beautifully illustrated article titled Pumpkin Soup and Majestic Orchids by Clare and Johan Hermans highlighting the recent Orchid Conservation Alliance trip to Madagascar, a special feature on the first records of Angraecum corrugatum and Cynorkis inermis in Madagascar and a report on the spectacular 23rd World Orchid Conference and 10th Taiwan International Orchid Show provided to us by Elita Vellekoop of Floral Daily.

Rounding out our May 2024 issue:

• Volunteer Recognition - Service Awards from the Members' Meeting by the AOS Awards Committee
• Volunteer Recognition - Franklin A. Smith, AOS Gold Medal Recipient by Susan Wedegaertner
• For the Novice - Water Your Orchids by Ray Barkalow
• GREATIdeas - Hang this Caddy by Ed Wright and Bill Tippit
• Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
  Collector's Item - Cattleya sincorana by Judith Rapacz Hassler and Spiro Kasomenakis
• Judges' Corner - Dateline Kenya, AOS International Outreach by Jean Hollebone and Cheryl Erins
• Orchids Illustrated - Cyrtorchis by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
  Lindleyana - A New Large-Flowered and Previously Misinterpreted Andean Cyrtochilum (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae), and some new combinations.