~e AMERICAN· ORCHID SOCIETY BULLETIN VOL. 1 JUNE,1932 No.1 . Cypripediu1% LawrenceanU11It PUBLISHED BY THE" TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY THE AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY BULLETIN A Magazine Devoted to the Popularizing of Orchids and their Culture PRESENT ROLL OF OFFICERS' AND TRUSTEES April 29, 1932 OFFICERS President, F. E. DIXON, Secretary, DAVID LUMSDEN, 1411 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 115 Glenbrook Road, Bethesda, Md. Treasurer, WALTER H. JEWELL, New Rochelle, New York. VICE-PRESIDENTS OAKES AMES, MRS. WILLIAM K. DUPONT, 225 Bay State Road, Boston, Mass. Wilmington, Delaware. MRS. PIERRE S. DUPONT, JOSEPH E. WIDENER, Kennett S'quare, Pennsylvania. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. GEORGE T. MOORE, Missouri Botankall Garden, St. Louis, Mo. HARRY G. HASKELL, 9044 duPont Building, Wilmington, Del. WILLIAM R. COE, The Chrysler Bldg., E. 42nd St., JAMES C. AUCHINCLOSS, New York, N. Y. 1 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. EDWIN S. WEBSTER, 49 Federa'l Street, Boston, Mass. TRUSTEES' Terms Expiring in 1933 GEORGE E. BALDWIN, JOSEPH MANDA, Mamaroneck, N ew York. 130-132 Main Street, W. Orange, N. J. J. J. MURDOCK, P ARMELY HERRICK, 35 Larchmont Avenue, Larchmont, N. Y. 720 Cuyahoga Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. JOHN W. SLOTTER, Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania. Terms Expiring in 1934 MRS. R. B. STRASSBURGER, OLIVER LINES, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania. Ronaele Farms, Elkins Park, Penna. TOHN E. LAGER, DAVID H. HOLMES, Summit, N e.w J e.rsey. Bound Brook, New Jersey. ALBERT C. BURRAGE, JR., Ipswioh, Massachusetts. Terms Expiring in 1935 ERNEST B. DANE, W ALTER ARMACOST, 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Sawtelle, California. ROBERT H. ROLAND, W. A. WAY, 33 Summer Street, Nahant, Mass. Southern Pines, N. Car. LEWIS KNUDSON, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Entry applied for as second class matter at the Post Office at Baltimore, Maryland. The American Orchid Society Bulletin EDITOR DAVID LUMSDEN Vol. 1 Copyright, 1912, by THE AMERICAN ORCHID SOCI£TY No.1 JUNE, 1932 Contents In Memoriam. ALBERT CAMERON BURRAGE.. 00............................. 3 The Cypripedieae. DAVID LUMSDEN................................................................................................ 6 Hardy Cyprillediums 13 Angraecum sororium, Schecter 15 Cymbidium Dante 15 European Orchids in Rock Gardens 15 Florida Wild Life-New Book. 15 Odontoglossum marcella var. EX'bury 15 Sophrolaeliocattleya Phena var. Ignescens 15 A New Cypriperlium Spedes 16 Col1l1ell University 16 Guide to the Orch~ds of New South Wales 16 Orchid Flora of the United States, Additions to 16 Paphiopedilum caudatum 16 American Ol"Chid Society's Large Gold Med<tl presented 17 A New Genus of the Orchidaceae from the New Hebrides 17 Fifth National Orchid Show 17 AmericaJl1 Orchid Society-Honors awarded 18 American Orchid Society-Year Book 18 Odontoglossum Alorcus var. Goliath 18 Orchid Hybrids 18 Registration of Hybrid Orchids.......................................................................................................... 18 The Exhibition Ta;ble 19 The Question Box 20 Dendrobium Kestevenii 22 Dendrobium profusum-Schlecter 22 Hybrid Orchids of American Origin 24 ILLUSTRATIONS Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Front cover Albert Cameron Burrage 2 Cypripedium Arnoldianum 4 Cypripedium regime 10 Cypripedium pa·rviflorum var. pubescens 14 Cypfi.pedium philippinense 23 Published quarterly by The American Orchid Society, Washington, D. C. Editorial Office, lIS Glenbrook Road, Bethesda, Maryland. Subscription to this magazine is $1.00 a year for members. which is included in the annual dues; to non· members the price is one dollar a copy, four dollars the year. 2 THE AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY BULLETIN June, 1932 ALBERT CAMERON BURRAGE 1921-1929 First President of The America.n Orchid Society In Memoriam Mr. Burrage was born in Ashburn­ 1922 for the establishment in Beverly ham, Mass., on November 21, 1859. of the greatest collection of exotic Or­ the son of George Sanderson and Au­ chids the New World has yet seen. At relia Chamberlin Burrage. When he the Chelsea show in London, En­ was quite young his parents moved to gland, in 1925, Mr. Burrage was California, where he lived until he awarded the Lindley Medal for an was eighteen years old. After some educational exhibit of hardy Cypri­ months of study in Europe he entered pediums from the United States, the Harvard College in 1879 and was plants being exhibited in a natural graduated with a degree, summa setting. cum laude, in 1883. He then entered Mr. Burrage assembled a very com­ the Harvard Law School from which plete library of botanical and horti­ he graduated in 1884. After com­ cultural publications. .The section de­ pleting his studies, he was admitted tCl voted to Orchid literature being very the Bar in September, 1884, and be­ comprehensive. gan to practice law in Boston. No person has done more to en­ Although he was always active in courage the study and cultivation of politics, the only public office he held Orchids than Mr. Burrage. In J an­ was membership in the Boston Com­ uary, 1930, he donated the sum of mon Council. His careful study of $50,000 to the Massachusetts Horti­ municipal affairs was recognized by cultural Society, the interest to be his appointment by the Governor in used for prizes and additions to the 1894 to the Boston Transit Commis­ library. sion, which built and leased the Bos­ ton subway, one of the iargest, most Mr. Burrage's name is commemo­ difficult, and most successful works rated in the genus Burrageara in the ever undertaken in an American city. Orchid family. In 1896 Mr. Burrage became Presi­ In 1921 Mr. Burrage was elected dent of the Allied Gas Companies of president of the Massachusetts Horti­ Boston. In 1898 he became greatly cultural Society and was elected for interested in copper mining and or­ the same office the same year by the ganized the Amalgamated Copper American Orchid Society, which of­ Company, of which he was a director fice he filled for eight years, resigning until its dissolution. .He also organ­ on account of ill health. At the time ized the Chile Copper Company. For of his death he was a Trustee of the many years he devoted his time to the Society. Mr. Burrage was a member development of new processes for the' of .the Pennsylvania Horticultural treatment of low-grade copper ores. Society, the New York Horticultural In his interests as a horticulturist, Society, the Garden Club of America Mr. Burrage was known internation­ and a Fellow of the Royal Horticul­ ally especially for his cultivation of tural Society of Great Britain. exotic Orchids. His exhibits of the Surviving him are his wife, the for­ products of his greenhouses were un­ mer Miss Alice H. Haskell, of Bos­ usual and always attracted large num­ ton; two sons, Albert Cameron and bers of flower and garden lovers. Russell Burrage, and a daughter, Mrs. America's h i g h est horticultural Harold L. Chalifoux. Mr. Albert C. award, the George R. White Medal Burrage, Jr., is a Trustee of the of Honor, was presented to him in American Orchid Society. 3 4 THE AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY BULLETIN June, 1932 Cypripedium Arnoldianu11't (C. con color X C. snperbiens) First hybrid CypTipedillm mised in A111eTica Joseph Manda, Originator June, 1932 THE AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY BULLETIN 5 The Cypripedieae CYPRIPEDIUM CORDULA (Cypripedium) PAPHIOPEDILUM (Selenipedium) (Phragmopedilum) TRIBE CYPRIPEDIEAE GROUP I GENUS CYPRIPEDIUM These are terrestrial orchids native to the north temperate zone, having broad plicate leaves, flowers solitary or in few-flowered racemes, perianth persistent with valvate sepals, ovary one-celled with parietal placentas. Lip inflated sac-like, seeds fusiform. Plants usually deciduous. The native Lady's Slipper orchids belong to this genus. GROUP II GENUS CORDULA-(Paphiopedilu111) (Cypripedium paphiopedium) Stemless epiphytic, or terrestrial orchids, native to tropical Asia and Malaya, with leathery, conduplicate, coriaceous leaves, often checkered and mottled. Ovary one-celled, seeds fusiform, flowers solitary or few on a stalk, the lateral sepals united and the lip sac-like. Confined to the tropics of the Old World. Most of the greenhouse and conservatory species and their hybrids belong to this genus. GROUP ITT GENUS PAPHlOPEDILUM (Selenipediwrn) (Phragmopedilum ) Tropical American epiphytic or terrestrial orchids with conduplicate coria­ ceous strap-shaped leaves. Flowers in racemes or panicles, the lateral sepals united, lip sac-like with edges reflexed or turned in, flowers articulated above the three-celled ovary-seeds fusiform. The scapes produce a succession of flowers, sometimes two or more are open at the same time. The plants are vigorous growers attaining a height of from two to three feet. They are also more floriferous than is the case with plants of the genus Cordula, they also produce flower after flower on the same spike. The foliage of the Paphiopedi­ lum is never mottled or variegated. All the South American species and their hyhrids known to the horticul­ turists as Phragmopedilum and Selenipedium belong to this genus. All the Cypripedes are pseudo-bulhless. 6 THE AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY BULLETIN June, 1932 TheCypripedieae DAVID LUMSDEN In Orchidaceous plants the tribe was founded by Linnaeus on Cypripe­ Cypl'ipedieae forms an all irhportant dium calceolus, a hardy British species part. Most genera of orchids with native to the British Isles, Central Eu­ their species and varieties follow each rope and Northern Asia. other very closely in their botanical The name Cypripedium is derived characteristics, and in the majority of from the Greek K upris, one of the cases the gradations between them is Greek names of Venus, and podion, a v-ery slight and almost imperceptible. slipper, in reference to the slipper-like With the tribe Cypripedieae, how­ form of the labellum, whence the pop­ ever, the tramition is abrupt and ular name Lady's-Slipper or Venus­ striking. The singular divergence in Slipper. Cypn:pediums consist partly structure exhibited by the flowers is' of terrestrial and partly of epiphytal perplexing to account for. It would species.