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SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY established in 1965 June 2007 NEWS---Volume 42, Issue 6 Executive: President, Jay Norris 416-463-7411; Vice-presidents, Wayne Eyles and Mario Ferrusi ; Secretary, Sue Loftus 905-839-8281; Treasurer, Joe O’Regan 416-759-2538 Membership: Annual Dues $25.00/Calendar Year. Membership Secretary, Hess Pommells 416-245- 0369, Apt. 503, 370 Dixon Road, Weston, Ontario, M9R 1T2 Web site: www.soos.ca Member of the Canadian Orchid Congress; Affiliated with the Orchid Digest, the American Orchid Society, and the International Phalaenopsis Alliance Honorary Life Members: Walter Norman, Terry Kennedy, Doug Kennedy, Inge Poot, Peter Poot, Joe O’Regan, Diane Ryley Program: June 3 , Toronto Botanical Gardens, Floral Hall, Sales 12:00, Program 1:00 pm: Joe Kunish, the owner of Bloomfield Orchids in New York state will speak on Culture for Paphs. and Phrags. Pre- orders for plants need to be received by him 10 days prior to the meeting. Don’t forget SOOS Summerfest, August 5, 10 am - 4 pm, judging in the morning, lunch, speakers Great Speakers, Great plants for Sale. Cal Orchids www.calorchid.com and Ratcliffe Orchids [email protected] All Orchidists Welcome The web site for cal orchids, www.calorchid.com, is not yet complete. The species part of the web site is operational so members wanting to place an order should use e-mail or phone to send the order, and ask for a confirmation (information is on the web site). I would not send a credit card Masdevallia mendozae 'Tuakau Candy' CCM/JGP number by e-mail as the system is not 2007. Best Masdevallia in the 2007 Tokyo Dome Show. secure. Either contact them by phone or arrange to pay for the plants at Summerfest. 1 President’s Message. exposure to other plants. Well Folks I can hardly believe our invincible Editor says Editor’s Note. it's time again for another President's As you will see I have borrowed freely from Message: I swear I sent him one only last others for this issue. It would please me week!! immensely if some of you dear readers would This week marks a special turning point for step forward with some local contributions. me, as Max and I have made the decision to Perhaps you could write about your sell the house in Toronto and move to experiences with a plant or describe your Stratford. We have just finalized the deal for growing area for us! Inge and I will again not the new house and will actually take be at the next SOOS meeting, so if someone possession on June 1st - so little time and so could contribute their notes? much to do!! How did we ever manage to accumulate so much stuff???? Welcome New Members We are going to have to relearn how to grow Bob Gibbon, Brenda Arianrhod Davis, our orchids all over again - let's hope they Margaret Hewings. enjoy the experience. I will keep you all posted as we go along: the first obstacle will Coming Events probably be arranging for rain barrels as the June water supply to our new home is VERY hard 2, Toronto Centre Judging, 1 pm, Toronto and requires a water softener - this is death Botanical Garden to plants!! Oh why did I fall in love with 3, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Pleurothallids and others who desire pure Garden Andean Cloud forest Rain, preferably with an 16, Montreal Judging centre. 80% humidity range and a temperature of July less than 23 C?????? 7, Toronto Centre Judging, 1 pm, Toronto I probably won't be at the June meeting, so Botanical Garden wish me luck!! 21, Montreal Judging centre. See you soon!! Happy Growing!! Jay August 5, Toronto Judging and SOOS Orchidfest. Problem table. A New Feature 18, Montreal Judging centre. To serve you better and to get to know you September faster there will be a Question and Answer 1, Toronto Centre Judging, 1 pm, Toronto Botanical Garden service available at all future meetings at a table next to the membership table. 2, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Knowledgable members will provide advice on Garden, Marilyn Light on protecting our native flora. problems you may have growing your plants. If you are bringing in samples of diseased plants please wrap them in plastic to avoid 2 May Show Table Class First Second Third Cattleya alliance Cattleya walkeriana Prosthechea vespa Epidendrum Class 1 Wendy Hoffman Jay Norris escobarianum Anita Kho Slc. Jewel Box ‘Dark Waters’ Ingrid Wauro Paphiopedilum Phragmipedium Paphiopedilum P. concolor Class 2 Schroderae (Phrag. rothschildianum Reva Starr caudatum x Phrag. ‘Eureka’ P.Gene Hughes Sedenii) Henry Glowka Ingrid Wauro Ingrid Wauro Class 3 Phals and Vandas Ascocenda Lese's Phalaenopsis Alliance Sunshine (Ascda. philippinensis Theptong x Ascda. Wendy Hoffman Guo Chia Long) Wendy Hoffman CLASS #4 ONCIDIUM Tolumnia Elfin Gem Howiara Lava Burst Oncidium AND RELATED (Tolu. Sniffen x ‘Puanami’ (Hwra. variegatum Tolu. Shannon Mini-Primi x Rdza. Anita Kho Elizabeth) Reva lanceolata) Anita Starr Kho CLASS #5 Galeandra dives CYMBIDIUM Wendy Hoffman Class 7 All Others Masdevallia setacea Stellis quadrifida Coelogyne ‘Spider’ syn.Pleurothallis lawrenceana Joyce Medcalf ghiestbrechtiana D Watts Yvan Richard Stellis argentata Anita Kho CLASS #9 BASKET Erika Lorincz Henry Glowka OF DISPLAYS 3 Member News points, Jacques Fortin. If you hear of anything affecting one of our Anguloa ruckeri ‘Yvonne’ CCM-AOS members, please let Wayne Eyles know at Schreibers Orchids. 905-629-1799 or [email protected]. Paphiopedilum Salvadore Dali ‘Yvonne’ AM- AOS 83 points, (liemianum x PLANT OF THE MONTH chamberlanianum) Schreibers Orchids. Phragmipedium Schroderae (Phrag. Lycaste Walnut Valley ‘George Cook’ HCC-AOS caudatum x Phrag. Sedenii) grown by Ingrid 75 points, (Leo x Hamana Jason), George Wauro on a window sill. Ingrid bought the Cook. plant at the December auction and Dendrobium loddigesii ‘Roger Sheng’ CCM- immediately repotted it in a mixture of bark, AOS, 85 points, Roger Sheng. coconut chips, tree fern, sponge rock, and Masdevallia Rushtonii ‘Malcom Adams’ AM- sphagnum moss . She fertilises with fish AOS 81 points, (ignea x racemosa), Mario and emulsion. Conni Ferrusi. Masdevallia Fraseri ‘Ilia’ AM-AOS 81 points, (ignea x coccinea alba) , Mario and Conni Ferrusi Masdevallia ignea ‘Marsh Hollow’ CCM-AOS 82 points, Mario and Conni Ferrusi Toronto Judging Centre, May 5: Masd. setacea 'Spider' AM/AOS 80 pts. Joyce Medcalf Trichocentrum nanum 'John Kafka' AM/AOS 80 pts. Erika Lorincz Maxillaria shepheardii 'Ashlar' CHM/AOS 83 pts. (prov.) Doris Jensen Phalaenopsis tetraspis flowers showing Library News: irregular colour patterning similar to plant Check out theses recent additions to the judged April 7. S.O.O.S library at the Toronto Botanical AOS Judging Results Gardens' library: Toronto Artistic Orchid Association Show April 14 Orchids on the rock: the wild orchids of Polystachya bennettiana ‘Erin’ CBR-AOS, Newfoundland by Andrus & Maria Voitk Gerrard Kompter. Grow Disas by Hildegard Crous Phalaenopsis Cygnus ‘Memoria Dr. David DiCiommo’ (Tokyo Bridal x Silky Moon) Slipper orchids of Vietnam : with an DiCiommo Orchids. introduction to the flora of Vietnam by Leonid Ottawa Orchid Society Show, April 28: Averyanov, Phillip Cribb, Phan Ke Loc, and Leptotes bicolor ‘Etchemin’ CCM-AOS 82 4 Nguyen Tien Hiep. in a matter of minutes there was over a foot of water on the road. The lightning was so The gardener's guide to growing hardy intense that it almost seemed like it was perennial orchids by William Mathias. daytime, the thunder was excruciatingly *** This gentleman was the guest speaker deafening. at our May 6th meeting *** The show itself was held in a cavernous room Spatulata orchids : Papua New Guinea by the with exhibits surrounding the sales area in Orchid Society of Papua New Guinea, Inc. the middle of the room. The aisles were 15 feet wide throughout the room. The AOS The Paphiopedilum grower's manual by Trophy was won by a table top display done by Lance A. Birk. Second revised edition Andy's Orchids . It was comprised totally of beautifully grown species, all of them had the country of origin on the label. I had the pleasure of being on a team that awarded Andy's Pleurothallis (Arconis) cynea. It received a Certificate of Cultural Merit of 84 points and a Certificate of Horicultural Merit of 84 points. It had 90 flowers and 83 buds on 31 fascicles on a 32 leaved plant in a 14 cm. mesh pot. Some of the new things that are happening at the AOS where discussed at the meetings. There are plans to create regional AOS Centers throughtout the country manned by local volunteers (their mandate being to stay AOS Representative Report on in touch with all the local Societies). the ARLINGTON, TEXAS meetings , May 2-6, 2007 The results of the survey will be in the June issue of Orchids. The meetings were in a beautiful setting. They are looking at a way to bundle local Lodgings were at the Wyndham Hotel and the Society memberships with an AOS Show and Meetings where in the building membership. next door, the Arlington Convention Center. A bit further away was the home of the Texas The cumbersome AOS web site is going to be Rangers where it just happened that the totally revamped and made much more user Toronto blue Jays where playing for the friendly weekend. I unfortunately had no spare time to attend a game. There are plans for the Members Section to include the Index of Cultivated Orchids with My arrival was certainly thrilling as a flash attachment to photos (this book alone would storm came in as we were being shuttled to cost about $1000). There will also be an the hotel.
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    Greater Akron Orchid Society An Affiliate of the American Orchid Society & the Mid-American Orchid Congress March 2019 President Minutes of Feb. 2019 Meeting Upcoming Business Jane Bush Dave did an enjoyable presentation on Welcome new members! We hope you enjoyed our Spring Vandas. Some relatives of Vandas include Show and would love to see you at a meeting. Meetings Vice President Aerangis, Angraecums, Rhynchostylis, are free and open to the public, so come stop by. Details Phalaenopsis, Neofinetia, and Renanthera. are below. Barb Ford Vandas are monopodial which means that they grow upward from ‘one’ (mono) ‘foot’ Thank you to everyone who donated your time, money, Treasurer (podial). They usually have firm, fleshy, rigid effort and energy into making this show a great success. leaves and long, brittle roots. A large, chunky We cannot do it without an outstanding membership and Paul Bujak medium, such as lava rock, works well for most Vandas. Sometimes, they are grown in diligent leadership. We hope that everyone had a great baskets and the roots will need watered or time. Secretary misted often. Vandas tend to need high light, good humidity, and warm temperatures. The Lore Yu biggest problems that afflict these is too Next Meeting much medium and low humidity. Some Editor examples Dave showed of his own were a The next meeting of the GAOS will be Monday, March 11, Neostylis Lou Sneary, Rhynchostylis 2019 at 6:45 pm at the Portage Lakes Kiwanis Center, 725 Brandon gigantea, Ascocentrum miniatum, and Portage Lakes Dr., Akron, Ohio 44319. Spannbauer Aerangis mystacidii. Trustee Program: Getting Acquainted with New Members Dues for 2019 GAOS membership are now & “Orchids 101” Dave Miller due.