South Coast Orchid Society

Orchid Digest Corporation and Affiliated Societies Judging
1949-1959

Exactly when "Orchid Digest Judging" began is subject to some discussion. Although a number of awards are mentioned in Orchid Digest in the 1940's, systematic judging based on a well-developed "objective" point system was first applied at an Orchid Digest Corporation event in October, 1952, at the First Western Orchid Congress, held in Oakland, CA. The "Flower Show" portion of the Congress was held October 24-26 in the lobby of the Anglo-California National Bank. After describing the exhibit classes in the show, Ernest Hetherington (Orchid Digest 16(5):206, September-October, 1952) explains the judging system: "Entirely separate from any special entry or ownership, the Judging Committee of the show selected a number of the most outstanding plants for certificate awards. These were scored using the judging standards of the Southern California Orchid Society."

The "certificate awards" from this show were later given sequence numbers, starting with ODC Award Number 1, a Silver Certificate for an Odontoglossum grande specimen (no cultivar name was recorded), exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Philip Karleen, which scored 86.0 points. However, it is clear that the same standards had been used for several years by the "Southern California Orchid Society", now known as Orchid Society of Southern California or OSSC. In fact, the records of OSSC place the first use of this system in September, 1949, OSSC Award Number 1, a Bronze Certificate for Cattleya Tethys 'Orme', exhibited by J. Henry Orme, which scored 80.0 points, and that is the starting point we chose for our analysis.

The Second Western Orchid Congress took place in Hollywood, CA in February, 1953. The show report (Orchid Digest 17(2):55-63, March-April, 1953), again written by Ernest Hetherington, effectively repeats the statement about the origin of the ODC judging system: "Following is a listing of Certificates of Award issued by The Orchid Digest Corporation to plants of special merit as judged by the newly adopted Orchid Digest Corporation judging standards which are identical with the judging standards of the Orchid Society of Southern California, Inc."

The original point system that was adopted by Orchid Digest Corporation in 1952 had thus been developed by the Orchid Society of Southern California. Scores from at least three qualified judges were to be averaged. Point scores of at least 75 and less than 82 were considered "Bronze Awards" or "Bronze Certificates". Scores of at least 82 and less than 90 were "Silver Awards" or "Silver Certificates". Scores of 90 and above were "Gold Awards" or "Gold Certificates".

These point score ranges differ from the modern standard in three ways: First, the cutoff point between "Bronze" and "Silver" was changed at some point to 80 points. Second, the terminology has changed: "Bronze" was eventually replaced by the "Highly Commended Certificate" or HCC, "Silver" by the "Award of Merit" or AM, and "Gold" by the "First Class Certificate" or FCC. Third, the modern system rounds the averaged score to the nearest whole number, although the unrounded score still needs to be at least 75.0. Thus, a score of 79.5, rounded to 80, qualifies today as an AM award. For the change in terminology ("Bronze" to HCC, etc.) and the change for the cutoff point, from the old 82 points to the new value of 80 points, the changes can be spotted in the OSSC newsletters and published award records in Orchid Digest, beginning with March, 1956 judging. The introduction of rounded scores has not been noted in the ODC judging records.

When Orchid Digest Corporation published the official list of ODC awards in 1965, the first two of these changes were silently incorporated, retroactively, so that the old "Bronze Certificate" awards with scores over 80 points were transformed without comment into AM/ODC awards.

In effect, then, judging based on the point system developed by OSSC dates back to September, 1949. We found no record of any changes that would cause judging at any ODC affiliate society to differ, and we are therefore tempted to interpret the terse statement in the March-April, 1957 issue of Orchid Digest (21(2):65, "Highlights—Orchid Digest Corporation Meeting—Robert Jones") very broadly: "It was provided that the Orchid Society of Southern California, Inc., and the South Coast Orchid Society judging be accepted the same as Orchid Digest Corporation judging and award winners be published in the Orchid Digest. The publication of photos of award flowers to be left to the discretion of the Editor." Absent from this statement is any indication of a temporal context; it could mean "from this point forward", or it could be an absolute statement, to the effect that all OSSC and SCOS awards, regardless of when they were made, are to be regarded on equal footing with "Orchid Digest Corporation" awards. As far as we know, this statement was never revised or clarified. In our opinion, then, ODC, OSSC, and SCOS awards are equivalent; it is a distinction without a difference.

In spite of this history, here reported directly from the pages of Orchid Digest, some groups of awards from OSSC and SCOS were published in Orchid Digest and/or given ODC award numbers, while others were not, both before and after the decision at the Directors' Meeting in 1957. At some points along the way, awards from OSSC and SCOS that were published in Orchid Digest were sometimes marked with an asterisk and a footnote that their judging programs were "independent" (in one case, the asterisk is there, but the footnote was omitted!). No records have been found that would enlighten us as to the reasoning behind these varying treatments of awards from OSSC and SCOS from one issue to the next. Was it simply an inconsistent application of clear principles and decisions? Or was the operation and status of the judging system at that time uncertain and unresolved?

Since the OSSC awards from at least 1949 were made with the same standards used by ODC beginning in October, 1952, and by SCOS beginning in December, 1954, we list all the known awards from these organizations, right up to the end of ODC judging in December, 1967, noting the gaps and problems that have been detected along the way. There is hope for filling in some of the gaps, as there is a great mass of archival material that has been deposited by individual orchidists, commercial growers, and clubs at the Huntington Botanical Center that has never been inventoried in any detail.

Another avenue for extending the record of ODC judging derives from the introduction of concurrent AOS judging at some events and venues. The instances where this practice is documented are noted below. When ODC and AOS judging occurred at the same event and for the same plants, examples have been discovered where both organizations used the same award photos, implying that there was just one photographer, serving the needs of both organizations, and selecting a single "award photo" for each plant. Where "shared photography" can be documented (also noted below), the AOS award photos, if they can be found, may serve as substitutes for missing ODC award photos. There are relatively few examples of "shared photography" in the period 1949-1959. The practice became more widespread in later years.

September, 1949, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cattleya Tethys 'Orme' B/OSSC 80 points, exhibited by J. Henry Orme. OSSC Award Number 1. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Gabriel' B/OSSC 76.33 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 2. Published in OSSC awards list.

November, 1949, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Red Knight 'AM/RHS' S/OSSC 84.83 points, exhibited by H. C. Swim. OSSC Award Number 3. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Carmona 'Alpha' B/OSSC 77 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 4. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Accolade' G/OSSC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Accolade' G/OSSC 90.7 points, exhibited by Joseph K. Urmston. OSSC Award Number 5. Published in OSSC awards list. Black-and-white photo featured as the frontispiece in Orchid Digest 14(5) (September, 1950).

December, 1949, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Farnmoore 'Rex' B/OSSC 75.8 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 6. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Gantling 'Beta' B/OSSC 76.5 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 7. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Clementine Churchill 'Alpha' B/OSSC 76.8 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 8. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Chrysostom 'Richard Fort' S/OSSC 83.3 points, exhibited by H. C. Swim. OSSC Award Number 9. Published in OSSC awards list.

January, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Blackamoor 'Alpha' B/OSSC 75.3 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 10. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Blagrose 'Alpha' B/OSSC 75.8 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 11. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Orkney 'Scottie' B/OSSC 77.3 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 12. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Crescent Meadow 'Little John' B/OSSC 80.5 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 13. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Durbar 'Orme' B/OSSC 77.3 points, exhibited by J. Henry Orme. OSSC Award Number 14. Published in OSSC awards list.

February, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cymbidium Minuet (no cultivar named) B/OSSC 75.2 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 15. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Doris Hunter 'Alpha' B/OSSC 75.2 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 16. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Kingpin 'Alpha' B/OSSC 80.5 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 17. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Gantling 'Gamma' B/OSSC 80.2 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 18. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Ambition 'AM/RHS' B/OSSC 81.5 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. OSSC Award Number 19. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Westonbirt' B/OSSC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Westonbirt' B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 20. Published in OSSC awards list. Black-and-white photo was featured on the cover of Orchid Digest 15(2) (March, 1951).

March, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cymbidium Peri 'Republican' B/OSSC 77 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 21. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Santa Barbara 'Rosemary' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 22. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Bodmin Moor 'Redbreast' B/OSSC 78.6 points, exhibited Orchid Research Co. OSSC Award Number 23. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Miranda 'Cloversheen' B/OSSC 76.5 points, exhibited by Orchid Research Co. OSSC Award Number 24. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Northern Lights 'Daybreak' B/OSSC 79.3 points, exhibited by Lloyd Beck. OSSC Award Number 25. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Jungfrau 'Snow Queen' G/OSSC 91 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 26. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Golden Hinde 'Granada' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 27. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Cassandra 'Fashion' S/OSSC 83.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 28. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Lapwing 'Springtide' S/OSSC 84.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 29. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Madonna 'Supreme' B/OSSC 80.1 points, exhibited by J. C. Wright. OSSC Award Number 30. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Miranda 'High's' B/OSSC 75.3 points, exhibited by Robert High. OSSC Award Number 31. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Brussels Alba 'Kruckow' S/OSSC 82.1 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. Kruckow. OSSC Award Number 32. Published in OSSC awards list.

Blc. Adario 'Kruckow' S/OSSC 83.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. Kruckow. OSSC Award Number 33. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Pauwelsii 'Compte d'Hemptinne' B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 34. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Chrysostom 'Chardwar' S/OSSC 82.8 points, exhibited by Dr. LeVal Lund. OSSC Award Number 35. Published in OSSC awards list.

May, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cymbidium Peri 'Imperial' S/OSSC 83.6 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 36. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Tethys 'D'Alberti's' B/OSSC 75.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 37. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Dulzura 'Kruckow' B/OSSC 76.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. Kruckow. OSSC Award Number 38. Published in OSSC awards list.

July, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Superman 'Le Roi' B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by J. L. Duroy. OSSC Award Number 39. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Dorothy Fried 'Ozzella' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 40. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Anubis 'Criterion' G/OSSC 91.25 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 41. Published in OSSC awards list.

August, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Bc. Ann Sladden 'Ward's' B/OSSC 78.3 points, exhibited by K. L. Ward. OSSC Award Number 42. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Sam Houston 'Alpha' B/OSSC 81.6 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 43. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Gitche Manito 'Goliath' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 44. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Lee Langford 'Panamint' B/OSSC 75.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 45. Published in OSSC awards list.

October, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Bc. Ann Sladden 'Burroughs' B/OSSC 76.1 points, exhibited by Guy Burroughs. OSSC Award Number 46. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Chrysostom 'Richard Fort' S/OSSC 84.5 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 47. Published in OSSC awards list with notation, "Void. See award 9."

Cypripedium Crescent Meadow 'Moonglow' B/OSSC 79.6 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 48. Published in OSSC awards list.

Potinara Medea 'AM/RHS' S/OSSC 83.5 points, exhibited by H. C. Swim. OSSC Award Number 49. Published in OSSC awards list.

November, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Battle of Egypt 'Alpha' B/OSSC 77.3 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 50. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Margaret MacCaull 'Trophy' S/OSSC 84.6 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 51. Published in OSSC awards list with notation, "Void. See award 9."

Cypripedium Topaz 'Sherman' B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 52. Published in OSSC awards list.

December, 1950, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

[The awards for December, 1950 were apparently omitted from the first list of OSSC awards, when sequence numbers were first assigned. When this error was discovered, the December, 1950 awards were assigned as 52a through 52i, in order not to disturb the sequence numbers of the other awards.]

Cypripedium Sheba 'Enchantress' B/OSSC 76.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 52a. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Maori 'Oaklands' B/OSSC 80 points, exhibited by Norris H. Powell. OSSC Award Number 52b. Published in OSSC awards list with notation, "Void. See award 9."

Cypripedium Bilbury 'Nell Howard' B/OSSC 80 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 52c. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Lemani Ducis 'FCC/RHS' S/OSSC 82.5 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 52d. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Blagrose 'Beta' B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 52e. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Firebrand 'Bambi' B/OSSC 77.5 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 52f. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Lucy 'Goldcrest' B/OSSC 77.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 52g. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Euryostom 'Excelsior' B/OSSC 81 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 52h. Published in OSSC awards list with notation, "Void. See award 9."

Cypripedium Egret × Sheba 'AM/RHS' (no cultivar named) B/OSSC 81 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 52i. Published in OSSC awards list. The identity of this plant is unknown, as nothing similar seems ever to have been registered; there is no registered hybrid Egret, and the Sheba in question (not Paphiopedilum Sheba (1941)) was from unknown parentage

January, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Red Sea 'Sherman' B/OSSC 80.8 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 53. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Regent 'Magnificum' S/OSSC 83.9 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 54. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Euryostom 'Excelsior' G/OSSC 91.5 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 55. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Blendia 'Magnificum' S/OSSC 86.3 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 56. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Trail's End 'Heritage' S/OSSC 83 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 57. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Balaclava 'Exbury' B/OSSC 80.8 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 58. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Balaclava 'Beret' S/OSSC 84.3 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 59. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Snow Bunting 'Muriel' S/OSSC 83.2 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 60. Published in OSSC awards list.

February 12, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Slc. Meuzac 'Radiance' S/OSSC 82 points, exhibited by Paul N. Baker. OSSC Award Number 61. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows the grex name as Meuse, an older hybrid; however, Meuzac seems more likely to have been in local collections.

Cypripedium Crescent Meadow 'Friar Tuck' B/OSSC 75.1 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 62. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows the point score as "75.1+".

Cypripedium Selina 'Perfection B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 63. Published in OSSC awards list.

March 12, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Bell Ringer 'Chimes' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. OSSC Award Number 64. Published in OSSC awards list.

April 9, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California Show, Los Angeles, CA:

Cattleya Dr. C. E. Wilson 'The Doctor' B/OSSC 76.8 points, exhibited by Dr. Earl W. Wells. OSSC Award Number 65. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Peri 'The King' S/OSSC 82 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 66. Published in OSSC awards list. At this judging session, this plant also received the first recorded AOS award for an OSSC event, AM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19510021, published in Register of Awards 82, and AOS Bulletin 20(6):354 (June, 1951). AOS judging was also done a few days later, on April 12, for the Southern California Spring Flower Show in Pasadena, CA, but how AOS judging was arranged for the OSSC event, who the AOS judges were, and what standards they were using have not been established.

Cymbidium Queen Mary 'AM/RHS' B/OSSC 78.5 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 67. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Morvyth 'Helenclare' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by Orchid Research Co. OSSC Award Number 68. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Harmachis 'Glen' B/OSSC 76.5 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. OSSC Award Number 69. Published in OSSC awards list.

May, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Blc. Ursula 'Magnificum' B/OSSC 77.2 points, exhibited by Paul N. Baker. OSSC Award Number 70. Published in OSSC awards list.

June, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Eugene Casey 'Marnette' B/OSSC 75.8 points, exhibited by Morris Holmquist. OSSC Award Number 71. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Dorothy Fried 'Royal Robe' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 72. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Balkis 'Silver Orb' B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Francis B. Cobb. OSSC Award Number 73. Published in OSSC awards list.

July, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Red Tower 'Rose Marie' B/OSSC 80.17 points, exhibited by Paul N. Baker. OSSC Award Number 74. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Abigail Anderson 'Armacost' B/OSSC 76.5 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 75. Published in OSSC awards list.

August 13, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Blc. Joyance 'Gold Luna' B/OSSC 78.8 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 76. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Rita Cobb (no cultivar named) B/OSSC 76.7 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 77. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Tethys 'Armacost' G/OSSC 91.3 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 78. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Laura Yuill' B/OSSC 78.2 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 79. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya guttata (no cultivar named) CCM/OSSC, exhibited by John K. Asder. OSSC Award Number 80. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Lee Langford 'San Marino' S/OSSC 86.7 points, exhibited by A. R. Moore. OSSC Award Number 81. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Tethys 'Walter Sprague' B/OSSC 77.2 points, exhibited by Mrs. Helen Sprague. OSSC Award Number 82. Published in OSSC awards list.

September, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Memoria Walter L. Armacost 'Louise Thompson' B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by A. M. Thompson. OSSC Award Number 83. Published in OSSC awards list.

Bc. Miranda 'Chartreuse Queen' B/OSSC 76.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 84. Published in OSSC awards list.

October, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cattleya Joyce Hanningotn 'Glenwood' B/OSSC 77.3 points, exhibited by Harry E. Cosner. OSSC Award Number 85. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Purity' B/OSSC 78.2 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 86. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Trail's End 'Cynosure' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 87. Published in OSSC awards list.

November, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Mossivale 'Janie' B/OSSC 76.6 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. OSSC Award Number 88. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Carolina Atherton 'Dusky Maid' B/OSSC 76.6 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. OSSC Award Number 89. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Cuesta 'Paul Baker' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by Paul N. Baker. OSSC Award Number 90. Published in OSSC awards list.

December, 1951, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Roger Coulson 'AM/RHS' G/OSSC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Roger Coulson 'AM/RHS' G/OSSC 92.3 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 91. Published in OSSC awards list. Black-and-white photo in Orchid Digest 18(1):8, "photo courtesy Sherman Orchid Gardens".

Cypripedium Regent 'Magnificum' B/OSSC 78 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 92. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC awards list shows "Void. See No. 54".

Cypripedium Grace Darling 'Country Acres' B/OSSC 76.7 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 93. Published in OSSC awards list.

January, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Cappamagna 'Fred Sander' B/OSSC 75.3 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 94. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Silver Certificate' S/OSSC 83.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 95. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC awards list places this award in December, 1953, but the award number places it in January, 1952, which is apparently correct; no such award is found in the OSSC newsletter report of December, 1953 awards, and the newsletter report for January, 1952 awards has not been found.

Cymbidium erythrostylum 'Day's' G/OSSC 92.3 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 96. Published in OSSC awards list.

February, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Dendrobium Sanders Crimson (no cultivar named) CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Paul N. Baker. OSSC Award Number 97. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC awards list shows parentage D. schroderianum × taurinum, but notes synonymy with D. Bali, now D. Bangkok, because of the synonymy of the parent D. schroderianum with D. phalaenopsis, still used for registration purposes, but now correctly D. bigibbum.

Lc. Nepthys 'Superba' B/OSSC 77 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 98. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Eloquence 'B. O. Bracey' B/OSSC 77.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 99. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Mimir 'Silver Certificate' S/OSSC 86.8 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 100. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC awards list gives the date as March, 1952, but this award is not found in the OSSC newsletter, and the award number places it in February, 1952, for which no newsletter has been found.

Cypripedium Hellas 'Westonbirt' B/OSSC 78.1 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 101. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Cavalese 'Majesticum' B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by Dr. LeVal Lund. OSSC Award Number 102. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Cameo 'Wyld Court' B/OSSC 77.7 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 103. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Jamul' S/OSSC 82 points, exhibited by William E. Beatty. OSSC Award Number 104. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter for January, 1953 notes that this award was the basis for the 1952 award of OSSC's "Fred A. Stewart Perpetual Silver Trophy". The OSSC newsletter reporting February, 1952 awards has not been found.

Cymbidium Sicilly 'Green Monarch' B/OSSC 77.67 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 105. Published in OSSC awards list.

March, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cymbidium Cuyamaca 'Sherman' B/OSSC 77.33 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 106. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Gladys Hamilton 'Radiance' B/OSSC 78.1 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 107. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Rouge' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 108. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Icarus 'Adams' B/OSSC 77.1 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 109. Published in OSSC awards list.

April, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cymbidium Clare Armstrong 'Grace' B/OSSC 77 points, exhibited by Chadwick Gardens. OSSC Award Number 110. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Westmere 'Almyra' B/OSSC 78.67 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 111. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Louis Sander 'Carol' B/OSSC 78.3 points, exhibited by Chadwick Gardens. OSSC Award Number 112. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Adele Sander 'Sun God' B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 113. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows the cultivar name as 'Sungodess'.

Cymbidium Peri 'Sonora' B/OSSC 79.83 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 114. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Swallow 'Orient' B/OSSC 77.5 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 115. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Memoria W. A. Way (no cultivar named) CCM/OSSC, exhibited by V. R. Martin. OSSC Award Number 116. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. George Lewis 'Helen B.' B/OSSC 77 points, exhibited by Harry Brough. OSSC Award Number 117. Published in OSSC awards list.

May, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cymbidium Peri 'Republican' B/OSSC 76.77 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 118. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC awards list shows "Void. See award 21".

Cymbidium Clare Armstrong 'Margaret' B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. OSSC Award Number 119. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya J. A. Carbone (no cultivar named) CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 120. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Profusion 'Twilight' B/OSSC 75.66 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 121. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Helen Wilmer 'Janie' (F2) B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. OSSC Award Number 122. Published in OSSC awards list.

June, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Bou Philippo 'Controversy' B/OSSC 75.5 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 123. Published in OSSC awards list. Published by OSSC with grex name Bou Phillips, which is incorrect.

Cypripedium F. C. Puddle 'Regal White' B/OSSC 76.66 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 124. Published in OSSC awards list.

July, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Rita Cobb 'Ozzella' S/OSSC 84.7 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella OSSC Award Number 125. Published in OSSC awards list. Published by OSSC with grex name Bou Phillips, which is incorrect.

August, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Memoria Albert Heinecke 'Meteor' G/OSSC 91.75 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 126. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Battle of Egypt 'Alpha' B/OSSC 79.12 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 127. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC awards list shows "Void. See Award 50".

Lc. Ravenswood 'Cameron' B/OSSC 81.83 points, exhibited by Robert Cameron. OSSC Award Number 128. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Sandra Ozzella 'Rita Renee' B/OSSC 78 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 129. Published in OSSC awards list.

September, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Memoria Albert Heinecke 'Apricot' B/OSSC 78.16 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 130. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Metacom 'Sunset' CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 131. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC awards list shows "Void. See Award 50".

(Missing Award?) OSSC Award Number 132 was not found in the OSSC awards list. It should have been from either the September or October, 1952 OSSC awards, but the newsletters that would have reported the awards for those months have not been found. The award might have been for a specimen of Cymbidium erythrostylum that received a CBM/AOS 89 points, AOS Award Number 19520043, on October 13, 1952 at the OSSC meeting, exhibited by Lambert E. Day, reported in the Register of Awards 100 and in the AOS Bulletin 22(3):203 (March, 1953). We suggest this possibility on the theory that the OSSC judging form might not have had a provision for a "Certificate of Botanical Merit" at this period. However, we have no information that AOS judging had been scheduled for either the September or October, 1952 OSSC meetings, and if the CBM award is from the October meeting, why Blc. Nanette Alba 'Mariette Ferrari' did not also receive an AOS award.

October 13, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: [In addition to the two awards reported here, there is an additional record of a CBM/AOS awarded for Cymbidium erythrostylum, 89 points, exhibited by Lambert E. Day of Los Angeles, CA, apparently the first evidence of AOS judging activity at an OSSC event.]

Blc. Nanette Alba 'Mariette Ferrari' S/OSSC 83.5 points, exhibited by Norris H. Powell. OSSC Award Number 133. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Rosy Dawn 'Swan Lake' B/OSSC 76.12 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 134. Published in OSSC awards list.

October 24, 1952, 1st Western Orchid Congress, Oakland, CA:

Odontoglossum grande (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC 86 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Philip Karleen. ODC Award Number 1. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 16(6):255 (November, 1952).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Vallemar' HCC/AOS, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Vallemar' AM/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 2. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 16(6):255 (November, 1952) with black-and-white photo.

Cypripedium Hestina (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Avancino Mortinson. ODC Award Number 3. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 16(6):255 (November, 1952).

Lc. Cabazon (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Cabazon (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 4. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 16(6):255 (November, 1952) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Bow Bells (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 5. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 16(6):255 (November, 1952) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Bow Bells (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 6. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 16(6):255 (November, 1952) with black-and-white photo.

November, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Carl Swope 'Cantarranas' B/OSSC 75.7 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 135. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Makeda 'Stockbridge' B/OSSC 75.5 points, exhibited by C. R. Cosbey. OSSC Award Number 136. Published in OSSC awards list.

December, 1952, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Dawn' S/OSSC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Dawn' S/OSSC 85.66 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 137. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows point score as 85.667. Black-and-white photo in Orchid Digest 17(6):261 (November, 1953), "courtesy of Albert R. Moore".

Cypripedium Marguerite Jensen 'Sherman' B/OSSC 79.5 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 138. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Matchless 'Lund's' B/OSSC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Matchless 'Lund's' B/OSSC 77.33 points, exhibited by Dr. LeVal Lund. OSSC Award Number 139. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows point score as 77.334, but from basic arithmetic and the nature of the scoring system, it should probably be 77.333! Bkacj-and-white photo featured on the cover of Orchid Digest 18(1) (January, 1954), "photo courtesy Albert R. Moore".

Slc. Sunburst 'Pimpernel' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 140. Published in OSSC awards list.

January, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Mimir 'Cantarranas' B/OSSC 78 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 141. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Worsley 'AM/RHS' B/OSSC 75.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 142. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Souvenir de Bonita 'Starr' B/OSSC 78 points, exhibited by Clyde Cosbey. OSSC Award Number 143. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows point score as 77.334, but from basic arithmetic and the nature of the scoring system, it should probably be 77.333!

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Country Acres' B/OSSC 80.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 144. Published in OSSC awards list.

Odontoglossum crispum 'Ashcroft' AM/AOS, points not reported, exhibited by Ashcroft Orchid Nursery, Seattle, WA. Not published in the OSSC awards list, and therefore lacking an OSSC award number, but it appears in the OSSC newsletter, separately from the OSSC awards for this month, indicating it was awarded AM/AOS in separate AOS judging at the OSSC meeting. AOS records show AM/AOS 83 points, AOS Award Number 19530001, published in Register of Awards 102, and in the AOS Bulletin 22(5):364 (May, 1953) with black-and-white photo. This is the first instance of an AOS award without a corresponding OSSC or ODC award from the OSSC judging sessions, where there is clear documentation in OSSC sources. It is certainly possible that individual plants or flowers were submitted for AOS judging only (on those occasions where AOS judging occurred at this site), but it is also possible that in some cases there was also an OSSC or ODC award for the same plant that was omitted from the lists in error.

Odontoglossum crispum 'Ashcroft' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

February, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Minster Lovell 'Golden Queen' B/OSSC 80.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 145. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Snowdrift 'Glenwood' B/OSSC 76.5 points, exhibited by Harry E. Cosner. OSSC Award Number 146. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Princess Elizabeth 'Royalty' B/OSSC 76.6 points, exhibited by Gene Grobstein and Herman Lieber. OSSC Award Number 147. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Momag 'Nobilior' B/OSSC 75.1 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 148. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows the grex name as Lumag, which does not exist. OSSC awards lists shows Momag, with the correct parentage.

Cypripedium London Wall 'Fairfield' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 149. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Bordure 'Golden Glow' B/OSSC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Bordure 'Golden Glow' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. OSSC Award Number 150. Published in OSSC awards list. Black-and-white photo in Orchid Digest 18(1):8 (January,1954), "photo courtesy Albert R. Moore".

February 26, 1953, 2nd Western Orchid Congress, Hollywood, CA:

[The report of the awards for this show notes that the show used the "newly adopted Orchid Digest Corporation judging standards which are identical with the judging standards of the Orchid Society of Southern California, Inc." Exactly how and when these standards were developed by OSSC and adopted by ODC needs to be documented; however, it is clear from this statement that there should be no difference between "ODC" and "OSSC" judging at this time. See Orchid Digest 17(2):62 (March, 1953).]

Cattleya Eloquence 'Silver Wings' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Eloquence 'Silver Wings' AM/ODC 83.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 7. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):54 (March, 1953) with black-and-white photo, and in the list on p. 62.

Cattleya Eloquence 'Amazon' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Eloquence 'Amazon' AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 8. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):54 (March, 1953) with black-and-white photo, and in the list on p. 62.

Lc. Soulange 'Cantarranas' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Soulange 'Cantarranas' AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. ODC Award Number 9. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):54 (March, 1953) and on the list on p. 62, and 17(4):150 (July, 1953) with black-and-white photo. Note: Photo published late, in the July-August, 1953 issue, explained there in a footnote: "Editor's Note: This is the formerly unpictured Silver Award winner owned by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. We referred to this winner on pages 54, 62, and 101 of previous issues of this year's Orchid Digest." (Page 54 mentions that no photo is available for this "Silver Certificate" and calls the exhibitors "Huber". Page 62 lists the "Silver Awards" and calls the exhibitors "Heckner". Page 101 corrects the errors in the exhibitors' name and notes that a photo is still not available.) Another photo has surfaced in the Fordyce slide archive at the Huntington Botanical Center, showing the awarded plant with its "First Award" ribbon and trophy. This is a different view of the plant from the one shown in Orchid Digest, somewhat faded, but it may be the clearest photo of Lc. Soulange that exists. There is no doubt about the identity of the plant shown in this slide, as there were only three other "Silver Award" winners at this show, and their photos as published in Orchid Digest are entirely consistent with their parentage and descriptions.

Lc. Soulange 'Cantarranas' AM/ODC, from Fordyce archive, showing "First Award" ribbon and trophy from the Second Western Orchid Congress and Southland Orchid Societies Show, February, 1953

Lc. Treasurer '#1' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Treasurer '#1' AM/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 10. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):54 (March, 1953) with black-and-white photo, and in the list on p. 62. Note: Orchid Digest shows cultivar name as 'No. 1'.

Cypripedium Douce Confidence (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Douce Confidence (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 11. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):54 (March, 1953) with black-and-white photo, and in the list on p. 62.

Cypripedium Morontes (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Morontes (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 12. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):54 (March, 1953) with black-and-white photo, and in the list on p. 62.

Cypripedium Minster Lovell (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Minster Lovell (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 13. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(3):101 (May, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Cymbidium Jungfrau 'Snow Queen' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Jungfrau 'Snow Queen' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 14. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(3):101 (May, 1953) with black-and-white photo. While we show the award as AM/ODC, exactly as reported in the ODC Awards List, the original reports show a "Bronze" award with 80.8 points, even though, from all reports of the standards at that time, we would have expected that all scores of 80 or higher and less than 90 should have received a "Silver" award. The same anomaly, "Bronze" where a "Silver" would be expected, is found several times in the records of the OSSC awards, too often to be explained as simple clerical errors. The solution is found in a series of articles about OSSC history in the OSSC Review: the cutoff point for the "Silver" award was originally 82 points rather than 80. The fact that the official awards list converted these cases to AM/ODC provides the needed guidance for how to interpret similar cases found in OSSC records. One known difference with later (AOS) standards is that the point score was not to be rounded to determine the final award category; a final score of 79.5 was still a "Bronze" or "HCC" award, while today it would be rounded to obtain a final (rounded) score of 80 points, and would receive an AM/AOS award.

Cymbidium Swallow 'Valentine' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Swallow 'Valentine' HCC/ODC 79.7 points, exhibited by Norris Powell. ODC Award Number 15. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(3):101 (May, 1953) with black-and-white photo

Cymbidium Dorchester 'Wallingford' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Dorchester 'Wallingford' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. ODC Award Number 16. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(3):101 (May, 1953) with black-and-white photo

Cymbidium Trancas 'Hallye' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. ODC Award Number 17. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(3):101 (May, 1953). Note: Grex listed as Cym. Redcap x Cym. Alex Westonbirt.

Cymbidium Trancas 'Hudlow' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Trancas 'Hudlow' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Jack Hudlow. ODC Award Number 18. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(3):101 (May, 1953) with black-and-white photo

Cymbidium Gladys Hamilton 'Radiance' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Gladys Hamilton 'Radiance' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 19. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(4):150 (July, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Perfection' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Philip Karleen. ODC Award Number 20. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(4):150 (July, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Cymbidium Miranda 'Hudlow's' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Miranda 'Hudlow's' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Jack Hudlow. ODC Award Number 21. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(4):150 (July, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Cymbidium Jason 'Dorothy' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Jason 'Dorothy' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. ODC Award Number 22. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(4):150 (July, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Bois-de-Breux II (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bois-de-Breux II (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 79.2 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 23. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(4):150 (July, 1953) with black-and-white photo. Note: Grex listed as Lc. Bois de Breaux, which is incorrect; the grex was originally Lc. Bois de Breux II, presumably to distinguish it from what was then Bc. Bois de Breux.

Lc. Trail's End (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 78.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 24. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(4):150 (July, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Gertrude Hampton (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 25. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(5):198 (September, 1953).

Blc. Ojai (no cultivar name listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Ojai (no cultivar name listed) HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Ozzella Orchids. ODC Award Number 26. Published in ODC Awards List (where date is listed in error as February, 1963), Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(5):198 (September, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Grubstake 'Victory' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Grubstake 'Victory' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 27. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(5):198 (September, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Labi-Royal (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Labi-Royal (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 28. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(5):198 (September, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Bob Betts (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Turnbull Orchids. ODC Award Number 29. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(5):198 (September, 1953).

Cattleya Heyday 'Three' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Heyday 'Three' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 30. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(2):63 (March, 1953), and 17(5):198 (September, 1953) with black-and-white photo.

Epidendrum peduncularis (no cultivar listed) "Special Award", from Orchid Digest

Epidendrum peduncularis (no cultivar listed) "Special Award", exhibited by Albert R. Moore. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 17(5):198 (September, 1953) with black-and-white photo. Note: Orchid Digest has this below the photo caption: "Although this plant was not given a Certificate of Award, it was granted a Special Award." What is this plant? We have not yet found any reference to a species or variety peduncularis among the reed-stem Epidendrums. Also, we did not find this plant mentioned in the show report in Orchid Digest 17(2) (March, 1953).

March, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cymbidium Morvyth 'Helenclare' S/OSSC 84 points, exhibited by John A. Hudlow. OSSC Award Number 151. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Glacier' B/OSSC 79.1 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 152. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Sunflame' B/OSSC 80.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 153. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Ethel Weber 'Brentwood' B/OSSC 76.8 points, exhibited by Paul Weber. OSSC Award Number 154. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows this award as Cymbidium Lysander, with the same point score and exhibitor; Paul Weber registered the hybrid of Cymbidium Miranda × Lysander in 1955 under the name Cymbidium Ethel Weber, and apparently the same cultivar 'Brentwood' received BM/CSA March 23, 1957, exhibitor John Baumgartner.

Odontoglossum Crispania 'Colossus' B/OSSC 77.8 points, exhibited by John Yuill. OSSC Award Number 155. Published in OSSC awards list.

April 12, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Bc. Miranda 'Chartreuse Queen' S/OSSC 84.7 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 156. Published in OSSC awards list. AOS judges were also present at this meeting, and this plant received AM/AOS 81 points, AOS Award Number 19530039, published in Register of Awards 111, and in AOS Bulletin 22(8):597 (August, 1953). Now correctly Rhyncholaeliocattleya Miranda (1918). There is a color photo in OrchidPro.

Rhyncholaeliocattleya Miranda (1918) 'Chartreuse Queen' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Princess Elizabeth 'Malta' S/OSSC 82.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 157. Published in OSSC awards list. At the same meeting, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points, AOS Award Number 19530041, published in Register of Awards 111-112, and in AOS Bulletin 22(8):597 (August, 1953). There is a color photo in OrchidPro.

Cymbidium Princess Elizabeth 'Malta' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Greta 'Ichor' B/OSSC 80.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 158. Published in OSSC awards list.

Vanda sanderiana 'Country Acres' S/OSSC 88.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 159. Published in OSSC awards list. At the same meeting, this plant received FCC/AOS 92 points, AOS Award Number 19530038, published in Register of Awards 111, and in AOS Bulletin 22(8):597 (August, 1953). There is a color photo in OrchidPro.

Vanda sanderiana 'Country Acres' FCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Grubstake 'Valiant' S/OSSC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Grubstake 'Valiant' S/OSSC 88 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. OSSC Award Number 160. Published in OSSC awards list. At the same meeting, this plant received AM/AOS 88 points, AOS Award Number 19530040, published in Register of Awards 111, and in AOS Bulletin 22(8):597 (August, 1953). Black-and-white photo featured on the cover of Orchid Digest 17(3) (May, 1953).

Cymbidium Princess Elizabeth (no cultivar named) B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 161. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Littledean 'Puritan' B/OSSC 78.2 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. OSSC Award Number 162. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Princess Elizabeth (no cultivar named) B/OSSC 77.9 points, exhibited by Rose L. Schlumpff. OSSC Award Number 163. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Arthur E. Miles 'Glenwood' B/OSSC 78 points, exhibited by J. A. Muller. OSSC Award Number 164. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Memoria S. G. Alexander 'FCC/RHS' S/OSSC 86.7 points, exhibited by Lloyd Beck. OSSC Award Number 165. Published in OSSC awards list.

May, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cypripedium Bonita 'Tricolor' B/OSSC 78.7 points, exhibited by Luther H. Duncan. OSSC Award Number 166. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Northvale' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by Thomas C. Wilson. OSSC Award Number 167. Published in OSSC awards list.

June, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Bonanza 'Jean Field' B/OSSC 76.1 points, exhibited by Dean Field. OSSC Award Number 168. Published in OSSC awards list.

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Amethyst' B/OSSC 77 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 169. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya mossiae 'Wageneri' CCM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cattleya mossiae 'Wageneri' CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 170. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows the cultivar or variety as Wagneri. Black-and-white photo was featured as the frontispiece in Orchid Digest 16(4) (July, 1952).

Lc. Eugene Casey 'Shillelagh' CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 171. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Atlantis 'Surprise' B/OSSC 76.1 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 172. Published in OSSC awards list.

July, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Blc. E. C. Wilcox 'I' B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Gilbert L. Raasch. OSSC Award Number 173. Published in OSSC awards list.

August, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Lc. Rita Cobb 'Crimson Hue' B/OSSC 79.3 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 174. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Memoria Albert Heinecke 'Mary Morgan' S/OSSC 82.3 points, exhibited by Mrs. Thomas Hull. OSSC Award Number 175. Published in OSSC awards list.

September 14, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Sue Ozzella 'Marie' B/OSSC 75.1 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. OSSC Award Number 176. Published in OSSC awards list.

Vanda sanderiana 'Terry' B/OSSC 78.7 points, exhibited by Robert Warne. OSSC Award Number 177. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter notes additional award AM/AOS 86.3 points. This record is found in OrchidPro (color photo), AM/AOS 86 points, AOS Award Number 19530050, published in Register of Awards 114, and in AOS Bulletin 23(2):117 (February, 1954) with black and white photo. The award description from AOS mentions "deep pink flowers", so the color of the OrchidPro image may be misleading.

Vanda sanderiana 'Terry' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cattleya Mission Bells 'Dames' B/OSSC 78.9 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. George Dames. OSSC Award Number 178. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows the cultivar or variety as Wagneri.

Blc. Winston Hoshino B/OSSC 79.3 points, exhibited by Dr. Francis Hoshino. OSSC Award Number 179. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter notes additional award AM/AOS 83.3 points. This record is found in OrchidPro (color photo, but the color balance is very bad, we adjusted balance and saturation), published in Register of Awards 114, and in AOS Bulletin 23(2):117 (February, 1954) with black and white photo.

Blc. Winston Hoshino (no cultivar name) AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cychnoches chlorochilon (no cultivar named) B/OSSC 77.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 180. Published in OSSC awards list.

October, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Dames' B/OSSC 78 points, exhibited by Mrs. G. Dames. OSSC Award Number 181. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Trail's End 'Comanchero' B/OSSC 77.1 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 182. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Trail's End 'Newport Beach' S/OSSC 83.8 points, exhibited by Dorothy Dyson. OSSC Award Number 183. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Tethys 'Garnet Lake' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by Walter F. Bertsch. OSSC Award Number 184. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC awards list shows date as April, 1954, but the award number places it in October, 1953; neither of the corresponding newsletters has been found, so the correct placement of this award is still in doubt.

Cattleya Tethys 'Fire Opal' B/OSSC 79.8 points, exhibited by Alvin Embree. OSSC Award Number 185. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Chastity 'Sherman' B/OSSC 77 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 186. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Momag 'Whatcroft Hall' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by Chadwick Gardens. OSSC Award Number 187. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Kittiwake (no cultivar named) CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Dr. Earl W. Wells. OSSC Award Number 188. Published in OSSC awards list.

November, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Blc. Carols 'White Frost' B/OSSC 81 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 189. Published in OSSC awards list.

Phalaenopsis Marmouset 'Zuma' B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 190. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Pibroch 'Bagpipe' B/OSSC 78.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 191. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. La Bolsa (no cultivar named) B/OSSC 78 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 192. Published in OSSC awards list.

Blc. Waranda (no cultivar name) B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 193. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Diversion 'Green Glory' B/OSSC 77.7 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. OSSC Award Number 194. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Balawater 'Nancy' B/OSSC 80 points, exhibited by Chadwick Gardens. OSSC Award Number 195. Published in OSSC awards list.

December, 1953, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA:

Bc. Nellie Rank 'Snow Queen' B/OSSC 81 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 196. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Marguerite Jensen (no cultivar named, possibly it was 'Sherman') B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 197. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Dorothy Hale' B/OSSC 78.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 198. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows the cultivar as 'Dorothy Haler'.

January 11, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Bonanza 'Mildred Wagner' B/OSSC 79.66 points, exhibited by Dr. Ralph Wagner. OSSC Award Number 199. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows point score as "79.66-2/3", as well as an additional award, AM/AOS 88.5 points. OrchidPro has this record, AM/AOS 89 points, AOS Award Number 19540003, published in Register of Awards 119, and in AOS Bulletin 23(5):333 (May, 1954) with black and white photo.

Lc. Bonanza 'Mildred Wagner' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Lc. Manila 'Margaret Newmeyer' S/OSSC 82.25 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 200. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter notes also AM/AOS with a score of 86.1 points. OrchidPro has this record, AM/AOS 86 points, AOS Award Number 19540005, published in Register of Awards 120, and in AOS Bulletin 23(5):333 (May, 1954) with black and white photo.

Lc. Manila 'Margaret Newmayer' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Lc. Grayce Hecker 'Jacobin' B/OSSC 78.66 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 201. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows point score as "78.66-2/3"; with an additional AM/AOS award of 82 points. OrchidPro has this record, AM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19540004, published in Register of Awards 119, and in AOS Bulletin 23(5):334 (May, 1954) with black and white photo.

Lc. Grayce Hecker 'Jacobin' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Blc. Iliad 'Goldenglo' B/OSSC 80.8 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. OSSC Award Number 202. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows an additional award, AM/AOS "82.66-2/3" points. OrchidPro has this record (color photo), AM/AOS 83 points, AOS Award Number 19540001, published in Register of Awards 119, and in AOS Bulletin 23(5):333 (May, 1954) with black and white photo.

Blc. Iliad 'Goldenglo' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cypripedium Milionette 'Buccaneer' B/OSSC 80.4 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 203. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Woodburn × Sherrington (no cultivar named) [B/OSSC 80.5 points?], exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC newsletter lists this award without a number, in the list of AOS awards for January 11, 1954, but without an obvious counterpart in the list of OSSC awards for the same date; no such hybrid has been registered. However, we think the parentage was reported incorrectly, and this plant was actually the hybrid Bell Ringer 'Brocade', parentage Woodburn × Chardmoore, which received AM/AOS 80 points at the same judging session, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc., AOS Award Number 19540002, published in Register of Awards 119, and in AOS Bulletin 23(5):333 (May, 1954) with black and white photo.

Paphiopedilum Bell Ringer 'Brocade' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cattleya Enid Alba 'Profusion' CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 204. Published in OSSC awards list. Although no AOS award is noted in the OSSC records, OrchidPro has this record, CCM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19540006, published in Register of Awards 120, and in AOS Bulletin 23(5):334 (May, 1954).

Cypripedium Elizabeth Keeley 'Superba' B/OSSC 75.4 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 205. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Omar 'Magnificum' B/OSSC 75.33 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 206. Published in OSSC awards list. OSSC newsletter shows point score as "75.33-1/3".

Cypripedium John Dovan 'Allison' B/OSSC 76.6 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 207. Published in OSSC awards list.

February 8, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Cypripedium Bell Ringer 'Brocade' B/OSSC 77.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 208. Published in OSSC awards list.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Easter Parade' B/OSSC 80.8 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 209. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Tegucigalpa 'Massachusetts' B/OSSC 78.1 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 210. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium London Wall 'Golden Crown' B/OSSC 78.1 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. Lacks ODC Award Number. OSSC Award Number 211. Published in the March, 1954 OSSC newsletter and the OSSC awards list. Note: The March, 1954 OSSC newsletter does not mention any AOS judging results. This award is similar or possibly even identical to the award that turned up in the AOS Bulletin 25(6):421 (June, 1956) and in the Register of Awards, AM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19560007, from AOS judging at the OSSC meeting of February 13, 1956. However, the March, 1956 OSSC newsletter, which reports both OSSC and AOS judging results for this meeting does not mention this award at all, nor does the supposed 1956 record appear in the OSSC awards list, which at that period included AOS awards. Was the same plant exhibited both in 1954 (OSSC award, no record of an AOS award) and 1956 (AOS judging only, not listed in OSSC newsletter)? So far, we have not found any evidence that might clarify this discrepancy. The OSSC award definitely belongs here; it is the placement of the AOS award that is in question.

Cypripedium Charjan 'Royal Robe' B/OSSC 75.1 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. OSSC Award Number 212. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Areca 'Model' S/OSSC 83 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 213. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Yamada 'Yellow' B/OSSC 76.4 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. OSSC Award Number 214. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: Correct name for this hybrid is Cypripedium (now Paphiopedilum) Florin-Hancar, parentage Florina × Hancar.

Cypripedium Lady 'Diana' B/OSSC 80.6 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 215. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Baldur 'J. A. Muller' B/OSSC 75.2 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 216. Published in OSSC awards list.

March 8, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Cymbidium Baldur 'J. A. Muller' B/OSSC 77 points, exhibited by Orchid Society of Southern California. OSSC Award Number 217. Published in OSSC awards list.

Blc. Pastel 'Minuet' S/OSSC 84.2 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 218. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Cygnus 'Constellation' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. OSSC Award Number 219. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Rosanna 'Imperial' B/OSSC 78.7 points, exhibited by Norris H. Powell. OSSC Award Number 220. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Myron McCormick 'Ferro' B/OSSC 80.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 221. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Pocahontas 'Novilior' (should be 'Nobilior'?) B/OSSC 76.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 222. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium York 'Malibu' B/OSSC 75.5 points, exhibited by Grant Brothers. OSSC Award Number 223. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Bernadette 'White Empress' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 224. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Momag 'Whatcroft Hall' B/OSSC, points not listed in OSSC awards list, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 225. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC awards list shows "Void — See 187".

Cymbidium Bodmin Moor 'Primrose Dell' B/OSSC 79.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 226. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Magnum' B/OSSC 78.6 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 227. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Gunaike' B/OSSC 77.1 points, exhibited by A. Muhlethaler. OSSC Award Number 228. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Grubstake 'Pay Dirt' B/OSSC 75.9 points, exhibited by Mrs. Ed Kehl. OSSC Award Number 229. Published in OSSC awards list.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Easter Parade' S/OSSC 83.8 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 230. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya White Blossom 'Country Acres' B/OSSC 77.6 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 231. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: The OSSC awards list places this record in September, 1953, but it is not found in the OSSC newsletter report for that date, and the award number places it in March or April, 1954. We place it provisionally in March, since Arthur Freed is known to have been present at that judging session, and is not mentioned in the other records for April.

April 12, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cymbidium Cygnus 'Purity' B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Co. OSSC Award Number 232. Published in OSSC awards list. OrchidPro has this record (color photo), AM/AOS 80 points, AOS Award Number 19540054, published in Register of Awards 131, and in AOS Bulletin 23(8):535 (August, 1954) with black and white photo.

Cymbidium Cygnus 'Purity' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Cygnus 'Purity' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cymbidium Miranda 'Larkspur' B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Co. OSSC Award Number 233. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: The OSSC awards list places this record in March, 1953, but it may belong in April of that year; the newsletters that could resolve this problem have not been found. We place it provisionally in April, since Niven Orchid Co. is known to have been present, and is not mentioned in the other records for March.

Cymbidium Cygnus 'Ivory Queen' B/OSSC 81.6 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Co. OSSC Award Number 234. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Cygnus 'White Wings' B/OSSC 76.2 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Co. OSSC Award Number 235. Published in OSSC awards list. OrchidPro has this record (color photo, but it is misidentified, from a 1971 award for Cymbidium Dag!), AM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19540055, published in Register of Awards 131, and in AOS Bulletin 23(8):535 (August, 1954) with black and white photo.

Cymbidium Cygnus 'White Wings AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cymbidium Ethel Ward 'Sea Green' B/OSSC 75.1 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Co. OSSC Award Number 236. Published in OSSC awards list. OrchidPro has this record (color photo), AM/AOS 80 points, AOS Award Number 19540056, published in Register of Awards 131, and in AOS Bulletin 23(8):535 (August, 1954) with black and white photo.

Cymbidium Ethel Ward 'Sea Green' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Cygnus 'Cajolery' B/OSSC 76 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Co. OSSC Award Number 237. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Arny Freeman 'Cosbey' S/OSSC 85.8 points, exhibited by C. R. Cosbey. OSSC Award Number 238. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Marietta' B/OSSC 79.2 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 239. Published in OSSC awards list. OrchidPro has this record (color photo, but the identification is uncertain), AM/AOS 80 points, AOS Award Number 19540053, published in Register of Awards 131, and in AOS Bulletin 23(8):535 (August, 1954) with black and white photo.

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Marietta' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Marietta' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cymbidium Alexette 'Rosemarie' B/OSSC 75.3, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 240. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Alexette 'Yolanda' B/OSSC 77.6 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 241. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Alexette 'Victoria' B/OSSC 78 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 242. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Magnolia' S/OSSC 83.7 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 243. Published in OSSC awards list. OrchidPro has this record (color photo), AM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19540052, published in Register of Awards 130-131, and in AOS Bulletin 23(8):535 (August, 1954).

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Magnolia' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'The Queen' S/OSSC 82.5 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 244. Published in OSSC awards list. OrchidPro has this record, AM/AOS 87 points, AOS Award Number 19540051, published in Register of Awards 130, and in AOS Bulletin 23(8):534 (August, 1954) with black and white photo. OrchidPro has a color photo attached to this record, but it is misidentified and is clearly not the awarded plant.

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'The Queen' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Glen Harmon' CCM/OSSC, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams. OSSC Award Number 245. Published in OSSC awards list.

May 10, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Phalaenopsis Doris 'White Christmas' B/OSSC 79.04 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 246. Published in OSSC awards list.

June 14, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Blc. Caligula 'Carol Thompson' B/OSSC 79 points, exhibited by A. M. Thompson. OSSC Award Number 247. Published in OSSC awards list.

July 12, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Phalaenopsis Margaret Bean (no cultivar named) B/OSSC 77.3 points, exhibited by Bean, Cooper Co. OSSC Award Number 248. Published in OSSC awards list.

Epidendrum prismatocarpum (no cultivar named) CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Orchid Research Co. OSSC Award Number 249. Published in OSSC awards list.

Brassia verrucosa (no cultivar named) CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Norris H. Powell. OSSC Award Number 250. Published in OSSC awards list.

Epidendrum tampense (no cultivar named) CCM/OSSC, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. OSSC Award Number 251. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Snowfall 'Exquisita' B/OSSC 76.3 points, exhibited by John W. Hanes. OSSC Award Number 252. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. S. J. Bracey 'Forgys' CCM/OSSC, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 253. Published in OSSC awards list.

August 9, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Cattleya Peetersii 'Alpha' B/OSSC 75.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 254. Published in OSSC awards list. The hybrid is listed in OSSC records as Cattleya Hardyana × labiata, which is now correctly Cattleya Peetersii (1902), and the parentage, Cattleya Hardyana (1896) × labiata.

Slc. Meuzac 'Flare' B/OSSC 75.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. OSSC Award Number 255. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Memoria Albert Heinecke 'Cunningham' B/OSSC 77.2 points, exhibited by C. E. Cunningham. OSSC Award Number 256. Published in OSSC awards list.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Brigadoon' B/OSSC 79.2 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. OSSC Award Number 257. Published in OSSC awards list.

Ansellia africana (no cultivar named) CBM/OSSC, exhibited by Dr. Earl W. Wells. OSSC Award Number 258. Published in OSSC awards list.

September 13, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Lc. S. J. Bracey 'Chartreuse' B/OSSC 79.5 points, exhibited by C. E. Cunningham. OSSC Award Number 259. Published in OSSC awards list.

Phalaenopsis Margaret Bean 'Perfection' B/OSSC 76.9 points, exhibited by C. E. Cunningham. OSSC Award Number 260. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Frau Ida Brandt (no cultivar named) CBM/OSSC, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. OSSC Award Number 261. Published in OSSC awards list.

October 11, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Cattleya Tethys 'Sunny Hills' S/OSSC 84.2 points, exhibited by Arthur Falk. OSSC Award Number 262. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Susan McAsham 'Moore's' B/OSSC 78.1 points, exhibited by Guy S. Moore Jr. OSSC Award Number 263. Published in OSSC awards list.

Lc. Edgar Van Belle 'Golden Pheasant' B/OSSC 75 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. OSSC Award Number 264. Published in OSSC awards list. The grex is correctly Edgard Van Belle.

November 8, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Lc. Bonanza 'Lucky Strike' S/OSSC 85 points, exhibited by C. E. Cunningham. OSSC Award Number 265. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Serene' S/OSSC 82 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. OSSC Award Number 266. Published in OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Langley Pride 'Emperor' B/OSSC 75.5 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. OSSC Award Number 267. Published in OSSC awards list. The grex is correctly Edgard Van Belle.

November 11, 1954, 3rd Western Orchid Congress, Oakland, CA:

Cypripedium Ingcar 'B' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 31. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Cypripedium Xantippe 'Arcadia' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Xantippe 'Arcadia' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 32. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955), also black-and-white photo on the cover of Orchid Digest 19(1) (January, 1955).

Cypripedium Susan Tucker 'Empress' HCC/ODC 79.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 33. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955). Note: Apparently this was published in the show report as Cyp. Santa Barbara 'Empress'; no such hybrid is known.

Cypripedium Festive Hunter 'Cranberry' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. ODC Award Number 34. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955). Note: award no. 34 duplicated.

Cypripedium Gantling 'Sea Cliff' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 35. Published in ODC Awards List as award number 34, duplicating the award number for the preceding award, and in Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955). Note: award number is corrected here to 35.

Cypripedium Diversion 'Colma' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 36. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Odontoglossum Esk 'Yvette' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Esk 'Yvette' AM/ODC 82.3 points, exhibited by Hugh L. Smith. ODC Award Number 37. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), with black-and-white photo with the exhibitor on p. 247, and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Montara' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 38. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Phalaenopsis Thomas Tucker 'Soquel' AM/ODC 83.3 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Phllip E. Karleen. ODC Award Number 39. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955). Note: ODC Awards List gives the date incorrectly as November, 1955, instead of November, 1954.

Phalaenopsis Chieftain 'Lynn' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 40. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Phalaenopsis Doris 'Model' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 41. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Lorraine Shirai 'Sunset' HCC/ODC 76.9 points, exhibited by H. Dressler. ODC Award Number 42. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Mirabelle '#2' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 43. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Blc. Ojai 'King Midas' AM/ODC 86 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 44. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Bonanza 'Bonus' AM/ODC 86.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 45. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Ralph Wagner' HCC/ODC 79.6 points, exhibited by Ashcroft Orchids. ODC Award Number 46. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Cuesta 'Nancy Ann' AM/ODC 85.1 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 47. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Golden Joy 'Mt. Eden' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 48. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Imogene' AM/ODC 85.6 points, exhibited by Ashcroft Orchids. ODC Award Number 49. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Manila 'Gladys Cutler' AM/ODC 83.3 points, exhibited by George Cutler. ODC Award Number 50. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. South Esk 'Mona' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Ronnie Wilson. ODC Award Number 51. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Bonanza 'Lucky Strike' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Lucky Strike' AM/ODC 85.7 points, exhibited by C. E. Cunningham. ODC Award Number 52. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), with black-and-white photo on the cover ("photo courtesy John Gist, Jr."), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Cattleya Anime 'Sunny Hills' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 53. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Cattleya Anime 'Crescendo' AM/ODC 83.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 54. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 18(6):248-251 (November, 1954), and 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

December 13, 1954, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

[For OSSC awards that were not published in Orchid Digest, there are two sources: OSSC published a numbered awards list covering 1949 through September, 1958, and most of the monthly newsletters have also survived, usually including award numbers. The newsletters are considered the primary source, but the awards list sometimes has additional information, such as cultivar names or grex names that were not published in the newsletter.]

Blc. Nacouchee 'Princess' B/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #268, cultivar name also listed as 'Princesses'.

Lc. Bonanza 'Imperial' B/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #269.

Lc. Bonanza 'Pioneer' S/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #270.

Cattleya Henrietta Japhet 'Valhaven' B/ODC 78.7 points, exhibited by R. Nick Bonome. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #271.

Lc. Memoria Walter Armacost 'Steadfast' B/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #272, cultivar name from OSSC awards list.

Lc. Memoria Walter Armacost 'Integrity' S/ODC 84.9 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #273, cultivar name from OSSC awards list.

Lc. Anime 'Alice Muller' B/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by J. A. Muller. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #274.

Cattleya Horace 'Maximum' B/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #275.

Cypripedium Sedgwick (no cultivar named) B/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #276, grex name from OSSC awards list.

Cypripedium Winston Churchill 'Indomitable' B/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #277.

Cypripedium Crescent Meadow 'Robin Hood' B/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #278.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'White Christmas' B/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #279, cultivar name from OSSC awards list.

Cymbidium Redwood 'Brentwood' CCM/ODC, exhibited by Raymond A. MacLeod. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #280.

December 14, 1954, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA:

Cattleya Mission Dolores 'Joan' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Mission Dolores 'Joan' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 88. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955). Back-and-white photo on the cover of Orchid Digest 19(2) (March, 1955).

Cypripedium Alyce Abbott 'Golden Gate' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Alyce Abbott 'Golden Gate' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by B. E. Abbott. ODC Award Number 89. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955), and a black-and-white photo on the frontispiece of 19(2) (March, 1955).

Vanda sanderiana 'Carbone' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda sanderiana 'Carbone' AM/ODC 83.7 points, exhibited by J. A. Carbone. ODC Award Number 90. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955), and a black-and-white photo on the frontispiece of 19(2) (March, 1955).

December 27 ?, 1954, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

[While this was a very important meeting for SCOS, inaugurating decades of judging at our meetings, the exact date has not been established. The "normal" date would have been December 27, the fourth Monday of the month, but it is possible the date was rescheduled because of the Christmas holiday. A meeting summary was published both in Orchid Digest and in the AOS Bulletin, but neither source gives the date.]

Cattleya Eloquence 'Arctic Circle' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary, NEED CITATION. Note: Orchid Digest report of Dec. 1954 meeting of SCOS.

Cypripedium Momag 'Whatcroft Hall' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published by SCOS, . Note: Orchid Digest report of Dec. 1954 meeting of SCOS.

Lc. Bonanza 'Klondike' HCC/ODC 76.66 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published by SCOS, . Note: Orchid Digest report of Dec. 1954 meeting of SCOS.

Lc. Bonanza 'Ne-Plus-Ultra' HCC/ODC 79.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published by SCOS, . Note: Orchid Digest report of Dec. 1954 meeting of SCOS.

Lc. Magadha (no cultivar name) HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published by SCOS, . Note: Orchid Digest report of Dec. 1954 meeting of SCOS.

January 10, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Bonanza 'Flying High' B/ODC 79.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #281. Awarded AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19550003) at the same judging session, published in Register of Awards 141, and in AOS Bulletin 24(7):480 (July, 1955) with black and white photo.

Cattleya Bonanza (Bracey) 'Flying High' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Polar Bear' B/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #282. Awarded AM/AOS 85 points (AOS Award Number 19550001) at the same judging session, published in Register of Awards 140-141, and in AOS Bulletin 24(7):480 (July, 1955) with black and white photo. A better version of the same award photo was published in the AOS Bulletin 29(1):41 (January, 1960) in an article about progeny of Cattleya Bow Bells.. A better version of the same black-and-white AOS award photo was published in AOS Bulletin 29(1):41 (January, 1960) in an article about progeny of Cattleya Bow Bells.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Polar Bear' AM/AOS, better version from AOS Bulletin 29(1):41

Cattleya Eloquence 'White Cap' B/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published by OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #283. Awarded AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19550002, no photo known) at the same judging session, published in Register of Awards 141, and in AOS Bulletin 24(7):480 (July, 1955)..

Lc. Trail's End 'Apollo' B/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #284.

Cattleya Eloquence 'Alaska' B/ODC 78.15 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #285.

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Velda' B/ODC 79 points, exhibited by A. W. Zimmerman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #286.

Lc. Bonanza 'Happy Days' B/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #287.

Cypripedium Susan Tucker 'Shasta' B/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter as Cyprepedium Santa Barbara, without a cultivar name. Note: OSSC #288; OSSC awards list gives the correct grex and cultivar names.

Cypripedium Aylesbury 'Suez' B/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #289.

Cypripedium Helem 'Choice' B/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter, but without parentage. Note: OSSC #290. OSSC awards list shows grex as Helen, with parentage Bailing Hill × Worsleyi; the corresponding newsletter shows Helem, a different hybrid that was registered by Stuart Low in 1944. From the parentage in the OSSC awards list, the correct grex should be Helem, and not Helen (1900) or Helen (1901).

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Malibu' B/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #291.

Phalaenopsis Margaret Bean (no cultivar listed) B/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Robert Bean. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #292.

Cypripedium Ravenchurch 'Red Flame' B/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter as Cypripedium Ravenshill, a name that has never been registered. Note: OSSC #293. The OSSC awards list gives the parentage as Ravenswing × Clementine Churchill (should be Clementine H. Churchill), which was registered in 1960 by L. Sherman Adams as Cypripedium Ravenchurch. The same cultivar 'Red Flame' received a BM/CSA award on January 25, 1955, again exhibited by Robert Casamajor, and listed in CSA records with grex name Ravenchurch.

Lc. Governor Gore 'Seminole', exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker, apparently belongs here, AM/AOS 80 points, AOS Award Number 19550004, published with the other AM/AOS awards for this date in AOS Bulletin 24(7):480 (July, 1955) with black-and-white photo. However, it does not appear in the ODC awards list, the OSSC awards list, or the OSSC newsletters.

Cattleya Governor Gore 'Seminole' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

January 24, 1955, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. Bonanza 'Royalite' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 55. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Bonanza 'Donner Pass' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 56. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Bonanza 'Territorial Enterprise' AM/ODC 82.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 57. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Cattleya Mimir 'Sagacity' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 58. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Lc. Ted Trimble 'Mardi Gras' HCC/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 59. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Cattleya Eleanor Wepper 'Valhaven' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Mr. H. Bonhome. ODC Award Number 60. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Virtue' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. ODC Award Number 61. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Blc. Lorelei 'Cantarranas' AM/ODC 83.5 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. ODC Award Number 62. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955).

Bc. Nellie Rank 'Snow Queen' HCC/ODC, from the Frank Fordyce archive

Bc. Nellie Rank 'Snow Queen' HCC/ODC 79.6 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. ODC Award Number 63. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):108 (May, 1955). The Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 4, sheet 20, slide 2) contains an undated slide labeled "Bc. Nellie Rank 'Snow Queen' BC/OSSC BC/OD". The back shows processing by Drewery, without a date or other processing information, a type of slide mounting probably from 1957 or earlier. The two awards mentioned were not concurrent. The "Bronze Certificate" from OSSC was awarded in December 1953, OSSC award number 196 (see above), and the BC/OD (in OSSC records as HCC/ODC) on January 24, 1955, both times exhibited by Grayce and Adolph Hecker. The image certainly appears to be an award slide.

Lc. Trail's End (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Mrs. Aspin. ODC Award Number 64. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Cypripedium London Wall 'Green Gold' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 65. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Cypripedium (Faralies x Cardinal Morton) HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 66. Published in Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955) with ODC Award Number 66, but not in the ODC Awards List. Note: The plant name is defective: second parent should be Cardinal Norton, but we were unable to identify the first parent (could it have been Floralies?), and no such hybrid seems to have been registered.

February 14, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Montecito' B/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by John Turnbull. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #294.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Mara Dee' S/ODC 82.5 points, exhibited by John Turnbull. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #295.

Lc. Soulange 'Cantarranas' B/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #296.

Phalaenopsis Margaret Bean 'Glen Alba' B/ODC 79.6 points, exhibited by Robert Bean. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #297.

February 28, 1955, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Blc. Lorelei 'Earl Monson' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(3):120 (May, 1955).

Potinara Red Friar 'Daybreak' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Clark Day Jr. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(3):120 (May, 1955).

Cypripedium Allendale 'Fine' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Clark Day Jr. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(3):120 (May, 1955).

Cypripedium Esther 'Westonbirt' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Clark Day Jr. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(3):120 (May, 1955).

Bc. Lynne Redmond 'Marnette' HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Morris Holmquist. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(3):120 (May, 1955).

Slc. Estelle Jewell CCM/ODC, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Morris Holmquist. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(3):120 (May, 1955).

March 12, 1955, Monterey Bay Orchid Society Show, Watsonville, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging, the first known instance of AOS and ODC jointly judging a show.]

Cattleya Eloquence 'Monument' AM/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 67. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955). This plant also received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19550028) at the same show.

Phalaenopsis Thomas Tucker 'Monarch' AM/ODC 81.6 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 68. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955). This plant also received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19550031) at the same show.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Pajaro' AM/ODC 80.1 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 69. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955). This plant also received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19550030) at the same show.

Lc. Trail's End 'Magnifica' AM/ODC 80.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 70. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955). This plant also received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19550029) at the same show.

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Snow Storm' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 71. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Cymbidium York 'Seaward' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Marmonte Cymbidiums. ODC Award Number 72. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Cattleya Mimir 'Armacost' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 73. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Cymbidium Jade 'Pajaro' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 74. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Phalaenopsis Dr. Henry O. Eversole 'Watsonville' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Philip Karleen. ODC Award Number 75. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Lc. Bois-de-Breux II 'Musette' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 76. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

March 14, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Lc. Charter Oak 'Independence' B/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by John W. Hanes. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #298.

Lc. Bonanza 'Case Card' B/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #299.

Cymbidium Independence Day 'Festivity' B/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #300.

Bc. Gilbert Fuller 'Variant' B/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #301.

Cymbidium Dorchester 'Wallingford' B/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #302.

Phalaenopsis Clara Knight 'Debutante' S/ODC 83.1 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #303. Correctly Phapaenopsis Clara I. Knight.

Phalaenopsis Clara Knight 'Bride's Maid' B/ODC 77.9 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #304. Correctly Phalaenopsis Clara I. Knight.

March 26, 1955, Northwest Orchid Show, Seattle, WA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Morvyth 'Pamela' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 77. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Slc. Lindores 'Langley's' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 78. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Lc. Walter Winchell 'Julie' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Walter Winchell 'Julie' AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by be. ODC Award Number 79. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955) and a black-and-white photo on the cover of 19(5) (September, 1955). This plant also received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19550040) at the same show.

Odontoglossum Perrytonia 'Splendens' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Perrytonia 'Splendens' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Beall Greenhouse Company. ODC Award Number 80. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955) and a black-and-white photo on the frontispiece of 19(4) (July, 1955). This plant also received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19550042) at the same show.

Miltonia Limelight 'Imogene Smith' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia Limelight 'Imogene Smith' AM/ODC 84.5 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 81. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955) and a black-and-white photo on the cover of 19(4) (July, 1955). This plant also received AM/AOS 85 points (AOS Award Number 19550041) at the same show.

Cymbidium Princess Elizabeth 'Dresden China' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Ashcroft Orchids. ODC Award Number 82. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Odontonia Olga 'Elizabeth May' HCC/ODC 79.9 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 83. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Cymbidium Cygnus 'Gertrude Rosendale' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 84. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Cymbidium Ramboda 'Green Fire' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Beall Greenhouse Company. ODC Award Number 85. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955). This plant also received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19550039) at the same show.

Cymbidium Balkis 'Peggy Fuller' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 86. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

Cymbidium Jade 'Colossus' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Ashcroft Orchids. ODC Award Number 87. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(3):109 (May, 1955).

March 28, 1955, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Bc. Imperialis 'The Globe' HCC/ODC, point score not found, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(3):120 (May, 1955).

April 18, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

[The normal meeting date would have been Monday, April 11, but the AOS awards list shows April 18 instead; the April, 1955 OSSC newsletter indicates that the annual banquet was to be held April 18, 1955 at the Ambassador Hotel, and that there would be AOS judging before the banquet. Since AOS judging at that time did not recognize the HCC award, it is clear that OSSC judging took place as well. The results should have been in the May, 1955 OSSC newsletter, which has not yet been recovered.]

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Alabama' B/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #305.

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Yosemite' B/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #306.

Lc. Bonanza 'Vesuvius' B/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #307, but shown in the OSSC awards list in error as #357, which is already occupied by an award from December, 1955. This plant also received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19550056) at the same event.

Blc. Primate 'Daffodil' B/ODC 81.5 points, exhibited by Gilbert L. Raasch. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #308. This plant also received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19550055) at the same event.

Slc. Meuzac 'Piedmont' B/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #309. This plant (but showing the cultivar name as 'Meteor') also received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19550057) at the same event.

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Snowflake' B/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #310.

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Benvenue' B/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by L. Sherman Adams Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #311.

May 9, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Bc. Barbara Wilcox 'Inca Gold' AD/ODC, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #312.

Potinara Red Friar 'Daybreak' S/ODC 82.4 points, exhibited by Clark Day Jr. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #313.

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Killarney' B/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #314.

Cattleya labiata 'Aruba' B/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #315.

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Wallingford' B/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #316.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Homewood' B/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Paul Weber. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #317.

Cypripedium Crescent Meadow 'Mary's Heaven' B/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #318.

Dendrobium Gatton Sunray 'FCC/RHS' AD/ODC, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #319.

June 13, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Lc. Sandra Ozzella 'Jan' B/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Mrs. Rolan R. Howard. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #320.

Cattleya Wedding Day 'Orchidwood' B/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Morris Holmquist. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #321.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Kismet' B/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #322.

Cymbidium George Wibier 'Star Dust' B/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #323.

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Victory' B/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #324.

Lc. Memoria Walter Armacost 'Tempest' B/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #325.

June 27, 1955, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Blc. Hammercott 'Peach Queen' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(5):218 (September, 1955).

Lc. Archdeacon 'Venerable' HCC/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(5):218 (September, 1955).

Lc. Eugene Casey 'Dumas' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by George Dean Field. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(5):218 (September, 1955).

Lc. Ken Kennedy 'Joseph Mark' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(5):218 (September, 1955).

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Anderson's' AM/ODC 88.3 points, exhibited by Mr. W. A. Brown. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in SCOS meeting summary in Orchid Digest 19(5):218 (September, 1955).

July, 1955, unknown venue, likely in Northern California:

[The award numbers for this group duplicate those for the OSC awards for October, 1955.]

Lc. Abigail B. Anderson 'Betty' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Herman Dressler. ODC Award Number 91. Published in ODC Awards List, not yet found in Orchid Digest. Note: Awards list has award number 914, surely should be 91, but that duplicates the award number range for October, 1955.

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Arden' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Virgil S. Ford. ODC Award Number 92. Published in ODC Awards List.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Snowflake' HCC/ODC 79.6 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 93. Published in ODC Awards List.

Phalaenopsis Dr. Henry O. Eversole 'Colma' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 94. Published in ODC Awards List.

July 11, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Cypripedium Clare de Lune 'Del Rey' B/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #326.

Lc. Scott Wilcox 'Alamo' B/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Gilbert L. Raasch. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #327.

Lc. Rondel 'Los Angeles' B/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #328.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Ann Blyth' B/ODC 79.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #329.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Purity' B/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #330.

Lc. Anubis 'Hawthorne' B/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #331.

August 8, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Cattleya Tethys 'Royston' B/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #332.

Cattleya Tethys 'Festivity' B/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Roy Field. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #333.

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Kermit' B/ODC 79.5 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #334.

September 12, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Memoria Leung Nui 'China Doll' B/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Toy's Orchids. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #335.

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Jean' B/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #336.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Butterfly' B/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #337. This plant also received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19550067) at the same event.

October 10, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Cattleya Henrietta Japhet 'Snow Queen' B/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Earl Hudson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #338.

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Crusader' B/ODC 78.9 points, exhibited by Charles Gardner. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #339.

Lc. Little Mo 'Hallye' B/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #340.

Cattleya Portia 'Westonbirt' B/ODC 78 points, exhibited by John W. Hanes. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC awards list. Note: OSSC #341.

October 11, 1955, Orchid Society of California Annual Dinner and Flower Show, Oakland, CA:

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Santa Lucia' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Herbert Hatten. ODC Award Number 91. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(6):255 (November, 1955).

Cattleya Tethys 'Inferno' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Tethys 'Inferno' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 92. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 19(6):255 with black-and-white photo on the frontispiece (November, 1955). Note: Duplicate numbers 92-95 in October, 1955 range.

Lc. Snowdrift 'Betty' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Snowdrift 'Betty' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by Norris Powell. ODC Award Number 93. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 19(6):255 with black-and-white photo on the frontispiece (November, 1955). Note: Duplicate numbers 92-95 in October, 1955 range.

Lc. Camino Real 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 94. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 19(6):255 (November, 1955). Note: Duplicate numbers 92-95 in October, 1955 range. In the text, Vallemar Gardens is referred to as "Vallemar Gardens at Vallemar", a formality that explains some ambiguous references elsewhere.

Cypripedium La Honda 'Seafoam' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium La Honda 'Seafoam' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 95. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 19(6):255 with black-and-white photo on the cover (November, 1955). Note: Duplicate numbers 92-95 in October, 1955 range.

November 10, 1955, 4th Western Orchid Congress, Long Beach, CA:

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Skipper' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Florence Huddle. ODC Award Number 99. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(2):57 (March, 1956).

Lc. Archdeacon 'Reverence' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 108. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(2):57 (March, 1956). Note: brief mention in list of congress awards.

Lc. Bonanza 'Pay Dirt' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Pay Dirt' AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by Grayce Hecker Orchids. ODC Award Number 109. Published in ODC Awards List, and black-and-white photo on the cover of Orchid Digest20(1) (January, 1956). Note: The award is described in the list of illustrations in the table of contents for this issue of Orchid Digest. The same plant was also awarded at the OSSC meeting the following Monday, November 14, 1955, where it received both Silver/OSSC and AM/AOS. The description in the OSSC newsletter reports three flowers, natural spread 6 1/2", dark reddish lavender sepals and petals, large darker rose lip, petals and lip ruffled. It was not the largest lavender Cattleya known at that time, but it was clearly exceptional in overall form and presentation.

Cypripedium Ravenhunter 'Surprise' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Ravenhunter 'Surprise' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Alvin Embree. ODC Award Number 112. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(1):21 (January, 1956).

Cypripedium Betty Bracey 'Springtime' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Betty Bracey 'Springtime' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 114. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(1):16 (January, 1956).

Cypripedium Milvara 'Long Beach' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Milvara 'Long Beach' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 118. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(1):21 (January, 1956).

Cypripedium Silvesta 'Del Rey' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Silvesta 'Del Rey' AM/ODC 81.1 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 121. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(1):16 (January, 1956).

Vanda sanderiana (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda sanderiana (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC 82.2 points, exhibited by Hai Okiki O'Hilo. ODC Award Number 123. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(1):frontispiece (January, 1956).

[The following awards apparently belong with the others for the 4th Western Orchid Congress in Long Beach, but they have not been located in the published lists of awards for that show. This is by far the largest group from the ODC awards list that cannot be matched with records published in Orchid Digest. The explanation appears to be that there was not enough space in the magazine to publish all of the awards.]

Cattleya General Patton 'Comanche' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Paul Gille Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 96. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Phalaenopsis Star of Rio 'Malibu' AM/ODC 81.1 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 97. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Sea Cliff' AM/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 98. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Mary Schroeder' AM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 100. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Lc. Claire Sato 'Kodama' HCC/ODC 79.5 points, exhibited by William Kirch Orchids. ODC Award Number 101. Published in ODC Awards List as Lc. Clare Sato, which is incorrect, .

Vanda Nellie Morley (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC 82.8 points, exhibited by O. M. Kirsch. ODC Award Number 103. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Vanda Nellie Morley (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC 83.2 points, exhibited by Walter Oumae Orchids. ODC Award Number 104. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Lc. Snowdrift 'Long Beach' AM/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 105. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Lc. Trempealeau 'Long Beach' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 106. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Lc. Elibo 'Long Beach' AM/ODC 82.9 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 107. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Slc. Lindores 'Brilliant' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 110. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Blc. Ishbel 'Sun Acres' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 111. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Cypripedium Elizabeth Keeley 'Winifred' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Alvin Embree. ODC Award Number 113. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Cypripedium Chrysocurte 'Perfection' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 115. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Cypripedium Balaclava 'Light Brigade' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 116. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Cypripedium Balaclava 'Exbury' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 117. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Arden' HCC/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 119. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Cypripedium Lohengrin (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 120. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Vanda Ohuohu (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 78.7 points, exhibited by Hawaiian Orchid Society. ODC Award Number 122. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Vanda Jane Shimamoto (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 79.1 points, exhibited by Ota Nursery. ODC Award Number 124. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Lc. George Baldwin (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 79.4 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 125. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Lc. (Isotta × Sandra Ozzella) (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. (Isotta × Sandra Ozzella) (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens "at Vallemar". Lacks ODC Award Number, but possibly belongs here. Photo in Orchid Digest 20(1), frontispiece, (January, 1956), with description in the table of contents, including the date of the award, 11/10/55. This cross seems never to have been registered, and we have not yet found any other evidence that this award comes from the 4th Western Orchid Congress.

November 14, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. H. G. Alexander 'Pioneer' B/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #342; not found in the OSSC newsletter, but found in the OSSC awards list for this month.

Potinara Red Friar 'Malibu' B/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #343.

Lc. Bonanza 'Marilyn Hill' B/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by Mr. H. A. Hill. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #344.

Lc. Kahili Kea 'Perky' B/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Mr. C. E. Cunningham. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #345.

Lc. Manila 'Sun Acres' B/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Albert R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #346.

Lc. Bonanza 'Pay Dirt' S/ODC 87.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. Grayce Hecker. Lacks ODC Award Number, but the same plant was awarded a few days earlier at the 4th Western Orchid Congress, see above. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #347; newsletter also notes that this plant was awarded AM/AOS at the same judging session, and that award is indeed found in OrchidPro, AM/AOS 88 points, AOS Award Number 19550081.

Cypripedium Betty Bracey 'Springtime' S/ODC 82.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #348; newsletter also notes that this plant was awarded AM/AOS at the same judging session, and that award is indeed found in OrchidPro, AM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19550080, supported by two different photos, a black-and-white photos in AOS Bulletin 25(3):187 (March, 1956), and a color photo showing apparently a different exposure of the same flower, AOS Bulletin 48(8):803 (August, 1979), in color.

Paphiopedilum Betty Bracey 'Springtime' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 25(3):187

Paphiopedilum Betty Bracey 'Springtime' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 48(8):803

Cypripedium Beaute 'Helena' B/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #349.

Lc. Sue Ozzella 'Encina' B/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Mrs. George Gardner. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #350.

December 12, 1955, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Labi-Royal 'Black Knight' B/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Albert R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #351. A slide in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 5, slide 20) shows this plant, indicating "Bronze Award OSSC", but the slide was processed in September, 1963. The background suggests the photo was taken in a greenhouse setting, and it is probably not the award photo.

Cattleya Labi-Royal 'Black Knight' B/ODC, from Frank Fordyce archive

Cattleya Portia 'Abundance' CCM/ODC, exhibited by Alvin Embree. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #352. This plant also received CCM/AOS (AOS Award Number 19550083) at the same event, and there is a color photo in OrchidPro.

Cattlianthe Portia 'Abundance' CCM/AOS, from OrchidPro, full resolution

Cattleya General Patton 'Zabelle' B/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by John K. Asder. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #353.

Cypripedium Betty Bracey 'Greenfinch' B/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #354.

Lc. Triglav 'Rotunda' B/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Mr. H. W. Brough. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #355.

Lc. Bonanza 'Six Gun' S/ODC 82.1 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Monson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #356. This plant also received AM/AOS (AOS Award Number 19550082) at the same event, and a black-and-white photo was published in AOS Bulletin 25(5):345 (May, 1956)

Cattleya Bonanza (Bracey) 'Six Gun' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Lc. Trail's End 'Ruby' B/ODC, from Frank Fordyce archive

Lc. Trail's End 'Ruby' B/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Albert R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #357. An image of this plant, indicating the award date and point score, but lacking any processing data except "Kodachrome", is found in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 4, slide 9). It appears to be the award slide, based on composition, lighting, and background.

December 19, 1955, probably South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA

Lc. Amigo ‘Niña’ HCC/ODC?, December 19, 1955

___   Lc. Amigo ‘Niña’, 76.5 points, “Bronze” [HCC/ODC?], A. R. Stephenson, December 19, 1955. This award record is from a slide in the Frank Fordyce archive, lacking an award number or the identity of the judging site. From the date, we surmise it could have been the Long Beach site, which would probably have altered its meeting date to the third Monday of the month, as the fourth Monday was the day after Christmas. If the award had been conferred at Oakland or any other ODC judging site other than SCOS or OSSC, it would have been included in AOS or ODC records. If at OSSC, it would have been in the OSSC awards list, and OSSC judging for that month had occurred on December 12, see above. Nevertheless, the circumstances are not clear, and the January or February, 1956 SCOS newsletters, which would have reported December judging, have not been found. Now correctly C. Amigo, a hybrid registered in 1950 by Joseph Urmston.

January 6, 1956, Peninsula Orchid Society Banquet and Show, San Mateo, CA

Odontioda Elpheon 'Atlas' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Hugh L. Smith. ODC Award Number 126. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(2):69.

Phalaenopsis Winged Victory 'Admiral' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 127. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(2):69.

Phalaenopsis Thomas Tucker 'Monarch' AM/ODC 84.5 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 128. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(2):69.

January 9, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Bonanza 'Cornucopia' B/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #358.

Lc. Atlantis 'Dandy' B/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by A. W. Zimmerman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #359.

Slc. Imperator 'Vulcan's Forge' B/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Mrs. A. E. Hecker. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #360.

Odontonia Molière 'Country Acres' B/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #361.

Lc. Bonanza 'Giant' S/ODC 80.4 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #362. This plant also received an AM/AOS (AOS Award Number 19560001) at the same event, and a black-and-white photo was published in AOS Bulletin 25(9):634 (September, 1956) as well as the Register of Awards, both with the same black and white photo. There is also a different photo, in color, in the AOS Bulletin 29(4):288 (April, 1960) as part of an article on Laeliocattleya Bonanza in a series of articles entitled "Orchid Hall of Fame". The relationship between the two photos is uncertain; if they depict the same flower, the color version must have been taken several days after the black-and-white version in order for the left petal to expand fully, but we think it is more likely that the two photos are from successive flowerings of the same plant, the black-and-white version being the true "award photo".

Cattleya Bonanza (Bracey) 'Giant' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 25(9):634

Cattleya Bonanza (Bracey) 'Giant' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 29(4):288, photo credited to B. O. Bracey & Co; not the award photo, but worthy of preservation

February 13, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya General Patton 'Malibu' S/ODC 82.1 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #363. This plant also received an AM/AOS (AOS Award Number 19560006) at the same event

Cymbidium Miretta 'Glory' B/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #364.

Lc. Bonanza 'Searchlight' B/ODC 80.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #365. According to AOS records, this plant also received an AM/AOS (AOS Award Number 19560008) at the same event; however, the AOS award is not noted in the OSSC newsletter.

Cymbidium Swallow 'Challenger' B/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #366.

[AOS records indicate there was an award (AOS Award Number 19560007) for Cypripedium London Wall 'Golden Crown', exhibited by Robert Casamajor, at this event, AM/AOS, but that award does not appear in the March, 1956 OSSC newsletter, where the February, 1956 OSSC and AOS awards were reported. In fact, the OSSC awards list places a similar award in February, 1954 (Bronze Certificate, 78.1 points), and that is exactly where we find it in the March, 1954 OSSC newsletter. There was no AOS judging at the February, 1954 OSSC meeting. The AOS award information in OrchidPro, the Register of Awards, and the AOS Bulletin disagrees with the OSSC records. If the record in AOS sources is not the result of some improbable mixup, such that 1954 OSSC results were reported as an AOS award for 1956, the only other explanation that comes to mind is that (1) Robert Casamajor actually exhibited this plant twice at OSSC meetings, once in 1954 and again in 1956, and (2) the plant was submitted only for AOS judging in 1956 and was not considered for an OSSC award, and (3) OSSC neglected to report the 1956 award in its newsletter. The cultivar 'Golden Crown' was first awarded (BM/CSA, 79.1 points) on February 27, 1951, exhibited by Robert Casamajor. It was again exhibited by Casamajor for CSA judging on January 26, 1954 (SM/CSA, 82.5 points), and the same flowering received the February, 1954 OSSC award (Bronze, 78.1 points). The next appearance is the 1956 AOS award (AM/AOS, 82 points). CSA records reported in OrchidWiz show that the same cultivar was exhibited for CSA judging on March 27, 1969 by John W. Hanes, receiving another BM/CSA (76.7 points, and the award photo for this occasion is found in OrchidWiz, image #80583).]

March 12, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging. Also, OSSC switches to HCC, AM, and FCC award nomenclature on this date; however, we found no mention of this development in the OSSC newsletter or Orchid Digest]

Cymbidium Aldis Lamp 'Country Acres' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #367.

Cymbidium Kinglet 'Emerald' HCC/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #368.

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Malibu' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #369. This plant also received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560026) at the same event. A black-and-white photo was published in AOS Bulletin 25(10):713 (October, 1956).

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Malibu' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 25(10):713

Cymbidium Swallow 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #370.

Cymbidium George Wibier 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #371.

Cymbidium York 'Sahara' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #372.

Cymbidium Gwen Sherman 'Yellowbird' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #373.

Bc. The Globe 'Bob's Haven' AM/ODC 80.4 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #374. This plant also received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560024) at the same event. A black-and-white photo was published in AOS Bulletin 25(10):713 (October, 1956).

Rlc. The Globe 'Bob's Haven AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cattleya Angel Island 'Bountiful' CCM/ODC, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #375. This plant also received a CCM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560025) at the same event.

Cymbidium Faye Wilson 'Beck's' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Lloyd Beck. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #376.

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Sunny Hills' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #377.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Angelus' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Clyde R. Cosbey. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #378.

Cymbidium Princess Elizabeth 'Novia' HCC/ODC 78.9 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #379.

March 20, 1956, Orchid Society of California, Berkeley, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging, and evidence of shared photography.]

Cymbidium Bodmin Moor 'Sharp Park' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest 20(2)

Cymbidium Bodmin Moor 'Sharp Park' AM/ODC 85.3 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 161. Published in ODC Awards List, and black-and-white photo on the cover of Orchid Digest 20(2) (March, 1956). Note: AOS awarded this plant (AM/AOS 85 points, AOS Award Number 19560033) at Regional Monthly Judging, Berkeley. CA, on March 20, 1956 (that is, both ODC and AOS judging occurred at the same meeting of OSC), and the corresponding award photo is found in OrchidPro, matching the flower in the ODC award photo, but a different exposure taken from a different angle. Further, there is a photo of the entire flower spike in Orchid Digest 20(3):121 (May, 1956), again citing the March 20, 1956 award date.

Cymbidium Bodmin Moor 'Sharp Park' AM/ODC, the AOS award photo featuring the same flower, from Orchid Digest 20(3)

Cymbidium Bodmin Moor 'Sharp Park' AM/ODC, the AOS award photo featuring the same flower, from OrchidPro

Lc. Pacific 'South' B/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 162. Published in ODC Awards List, .

[AOS records show an additional award at this event, Vanda Ellen Noa 'No. 2 Charlene' AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19560034), exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery, Hilo, HI. ODC seems to have no record of this award. AOS Bulletin 25(11):788 (November, 1956) and Register of Awards Suppl. I 188 have the black-and-white award photo, and the color photo, which seems overexposed and with very poor color, has been published at least twice in the AOS Bulletin. While this is supposed to have been a very important Vanda hybrid, the award fails to indicate what color it should be: "Eleven flowers of very fine form and good color; well-balanced on stem" — and no measurements were recorded.]

Vanda Ellen Noa 'No. 2 Charlene' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 25(11):788 (November, 1956)

Vanda Ellen Noa 'No. 2 Charlene' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 57(11):1226 (November, 1988)

April, 1956, unknown venue:

Cattleya Angel Island 'Dee Dee' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Melvin H. Dittmer. ODC Award Number 129. Published in ODC Awards List, .

April 9, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Grubstake 'Pay Dirt' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Mrs. Ed Kehl. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #380.

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Kern County' AM/ODC 85.1 points, exhibited by W. A. Brown. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #381. This plant also received an AM/AOS 85 points (AOS Award Number 19560036) at the same event.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'No. 10' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #382.

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Killarney' HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #383.

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Harmony' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #384.

Cymbidium Claudona 'Lesh' HCC/ODC 79.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #385.

Cymbidium York 'Cachuma' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #386.

Cymbidium Olympia 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #387.

Cymbidium Alexfrida 'Vin Rose' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #388.

Cymbidium Lump O' Gold 'Glitter' AM/ODC 81.2 points, exhibited by Marvin Summerfield. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #389. This plant also received an AM/AOS 85 points (AOS Award Number 19560037) at the same event.

May 14, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cymbidium York 'Sahara Bronze' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #390.

Vanda Iwalani 'Nakagawa's' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #391. This plant also received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19560046) at the same event.

Vanda Iwalani 'Nakagawa' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 25(10):713

Cymbidium Clare Armstrong 'Lillian' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #392.

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Corona' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by C. P. Teague. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #393.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Kenter' AM/ODC 82.2 points, exhibited by Raymond MacLeod. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #394. This plant also received an AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19560047) at the same event.

Lc. Manila 'Camano' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #395.

Blc. Seaspray 'Cameron' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #396. This plant also received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560045) at the same event.

Rlc. Sea Spray 'Cameron' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Odontoglossum Gavotte 'The Bride' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Judith King. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #397.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Lucinda' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Frank Williams. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #398.

Potinara Gordon Siu 'Potentate' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Dr. Earl W. Wells. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #399.

May 15, 1956, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Snow Fall' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Snow Fall' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Dr. Ralph Wagner. ODC Award Number 130. Published in ODC Awards List, and black-and-white photo on the frontispiece of Orchid Digest 20(4) (July, 1956).

Phalaenopsis Chilly Dawn 'Lake Merritt' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Chilly Dawn 'Lake Merritt' AM/ODC 82.3 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 131. Published in ODC Awards List, and black-and-white photo on the cover of Orchid Digest 20(4) (July, 1956). OrchidWiz (image #287537) has a very close match to the award photo published in Orchid Digest, a different exposure of the same flower. The version in OrchidWiz is the same photo that appears in OrchidPro (AM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19560048), although the latter image was scanned from a dusty slide, while the OrchidWiz image is much cleaner. For the ODC image, the camera seems to have been closer to the flower and slightly lower. This pattern is repeated for other pairs of ODC and AOS award photos from the sites that offered judging for both organizations: apparently using a shared photographer, each organization ended up with an equivalent award slide, but possibly from different exposures.

Phalaenopsis Chilly Dawn 'Lake Merritt' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

June, 1956, unknown venue:

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Wake' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 163. Published in ODC Awards List, .

June 11, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Phalaenopsis Henry Eversole 'Kay Ellen' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Dr. W. G. Johnston. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #400.

Lc. Allan-a-Dale 'Fire Mountain' HCC/ODC, from Frank Fordyce archive

Lc. Allen A Dale 'Fire Mountain' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #401. The hybrid is named after the character from the Robin Hood legend, usually written today as "Alan-a-Dale", but the earliest known mention, in a 17th Century ballad (per Wikipedia) as "Allan-a-Dale". Occasionally, the orchid grex name is listed by people unaware of the Robin Hood reference as "Allen A. Dale", as if he was a modern person with a middle initial. The hybrid was registered in 1955 by Armacost and Royston as Lc. Allan-a-Dale, now correctly Cattleya Allan-a-Dale. The award slide, with the award date and point score, and on the back, the OSSC award number, is found in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 1, slide 6). The slide was evidently part of the collection of slides that came to Fordyce when he purchased the property, greenhouses, and orchid collection of Albert R. Stephenson about 1962, because of the marking Ⓢ.

Lc. Zona 'Venita Kay' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Arthur Wolfe. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter, but the exhibitor's name was corrected in the next newsletter. Note: OSSC #402.

Lc. Memoria Walter L. Armacost 'Cavalier' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #403.

Lc. Lloyd Wallar 'Connie' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #404.

July, 1956, unknown venue:

Lc. S. J. Bracey 'Hoshino' HCC/ODC 78.7 points, exhibited by Dr. F. Y. Hoshino. ODC Award Number 164. Published in ODC Awards List. As Dr. Francis Hoshino lived in Honolulu, it may be that this award was for a cut flower shipped to one of the ODC judging sites on the mainland.

July 9, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Lc. Abigail Anderson 'Harris' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by I. M. Harris. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #405.

Vanda sanderiana 'Patricia Anne' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Norris H. Powell. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #406.

Vanda sanderiana 'Stella' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by C. J. Riedel. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #407.

August 13, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. S. J. Bracey 'Royal Velvet' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Roy Field. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #408.

Lc. Repartee 'Fire Mountain' HCC/ODC, from Frank Fordyce archive

Lc. Repartee 'Fire Mountain' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #409. The Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 2, sheet 27, slide 8) has the award slide, marked Ⓢ, indicating it came from Stephenson himself, with the point score and judging date on the front, and the OSSC award number on the back.

Lc. Volcano 'Wells Fargo' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by L. J. Knoeller. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #410.

Lc. Fred Castator 'Robust' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #411.

Phalaenopsis Margaret Bean 'Joyce' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Eric E. Todd. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #412.

Lc. Marian Andrews 'Beth' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Dr. W. G. Johnston. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #413. This plant also received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560058) at the same event.

Cattleya Marian Andrews 'Beth' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cattleya Marian Andrews 'Beth' AM/AOS, from OrchidWiz, image #117831, attributed to the William Merritt Collection

Slc. Estelle Jewell 'Mojave' AM/ODC 80.33 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #414. This plant also received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560057) at the same event, presumably the origin of the photo attached to the AOS award in OrchidPro — at that time, AOS and ODC judging occurred at the same OSSC meeting, and one set of award photos was made to document both types of awards. Stephenson exhibited the same cultivar, perhaps another division, at the SCOS meeting on September 24, 1956, SCOS serial number 76, 76.2 points, and there is also an award slide from that event in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 6, slide 15), marked Ⓢ, indicating the slide came from Stephenson.

Cattleya Estella Jewell 'Mojave' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cattleya Estella Jewell 'Mojave' HCC/ODC, SCOS award number 76, from the Frank Fordyce archive

August 21, 1956, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Vanda Eisenhower 'Buckskin' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Eisenhower 'Buckskin' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by George Cutler. ODC Award Number 151. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(2)68 (March, 1957), with black-and-white photo on p. 69. This plant also received an AM/AOS 85 points (AOS Award Number 19560060) at the same event.

Vanda Eisenhower 'Buckskin' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 26(1):38 (January, 1957)

Lc. Gatton Glory 'Gray's' AM/ODC 83.6 points, exhibited by Roy Hardy. ODC Award Number 150. Published in ODC Awards List, not yet located in Orchid Digest. This plant also received an AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19560059) at the same event.

Lc. Gatton Glory 'Gray's' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 26(1):38 (January, 1957)

September 1, 1956, 5th Western Orchid Congress, Seattle, WA:

Miltonia Peony 'Ronnie Wilson' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia Peony 'Ronnie Wilson' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 154. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(5):198 (September, 1956) with black-and-white photo on the frontispiece.

Lc. Davis Islands 'Agate Pass' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Benjamin L. Bird. ODC Award Number 153. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(5):198 (September, 1956).

Dendrobium _____ 'Margaret' (Nelly Sander x formosum) HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Ashcroft Orchids. ODC Award Number 155. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(5):198 (September, 1956). The Orchid Digest show report calls this Dendrobium Snowdrift, but the real Dendrobium Snowdrift was not registered until 1963 and has a completely different parentage. Apparently, the 1956 award was for a plant that was never registered, and was not, ultimately, called Snowdrift.

Slc. Fall Beauty 'Surprise' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Raasch. ODC Award Number 156. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(5):198 (September, 1956).

Lc. Coventry 'Gretchen Hoyt' HCC/ODC 79.2 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 157. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(5):198 (September, 1956).

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Seattle' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 158. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(5):198 (September, 1956).

Cattleya Ray Park 'S. Gorny' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 159. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(5):198 (September, 1956).

Lc. Cougar Gold 'Satin' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Cougar Gold 'Satin' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Benjamin L. Bird. ODC Award Number 160. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 20(5):198 (September, 1956) with black-and-white photo on the cover.

September 10, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging

Cattleya Loddiglossa 'Questover' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by Mrs. Rolan R. Howard. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #415.

Cattleya Iris 'Connie' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Dr. W. G. Johnston. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #416.

Lc. S. J. Bracey 'Chartreuse' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by C. E. Cunningham. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #417. This plant also received an AM/AOS 85 points (AOS Award Number 19560063) at the same event.

Cattleya S. J. Bracey 'Chartreuse' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cattleya S. J. Bracey 'Chartreuse' AM/AOS, from OrchidWiz, image #117921, attributed to the William Merritt Collection

Lc. Anadarko 'Dark Beauty' AM/ODC 80.6 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #418. This plant also received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19560062) at the same event.

Cattleya Anadarko 'Dark Beauty' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

[AOS records include an award at this meeting for Cattleya President Wilson 'Mary Catherine Bowman' AM/AOS 81 points, exhibited by Mrs. Alexander Bowman, Hilo, HI, AOS Award Number 19560061. There is a color photo in OrchidPro, it was clearly a cut flower. In spite of the photo and the publication of the award in Register of Awards Suppl. I 194, with black and white photo, and in AOS Bulletin 26(1):41 (January, 1957) with the same photo, the October, 1956 OSSC newsletter does not mention this award in the report of OSSC and AOS judging, and this plant does not appear in the OSSC awards list.]

Cattleya President Wilson (1916) 'Mary Catherine Bowman' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

September 17, 1956, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA:

Lc. South Esk 'Tiffin' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Walter Diggleman. ODC Award Number 152. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(1):16 (January, 1957). The date may be incorrect, as OSC normally met on a Tuesday.

September 24, 1956, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA

[While the SCOS newsletters from this period are apparently lost, and ODC records did not recognize SCOS awards for some months, one award was recovered in the form of an award slide in the Frank Fordyce archive.]

Cattleya Estella Jewell 'Mojave' HCC/ODC, from the Frank Fordyce archive

Slc. Estelle Jewell 'Mojave' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. SCOS Award Number 76. Represented by award slide, or a copy of the award slide, in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 6, slide 15), marked Ⓢ, indicating it came from Stephenson. The hybrid is now correctly Cattleya Estella Jewell.

October 8, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging

Lc. R. J. Chrisman 'Hollywood' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #419.

Lc. Bonanza 'Etta Gray' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #420.

Lc. Derrynane 'County Kerry' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Armacost and Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #421.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Bristol' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #422.

Lc. Thurderniana 'Robin Raasch' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Gilbert L. Raasch. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #423.

Cypripedium Yerba Buena 'Brentwood' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by R. A. MacLeod. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #424.

Lc. Quadroon 'Congo' AM/ODC 81.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #425. This plant also received an AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19560066) at the same event.

Cattleya Quadroon 'Congo' AM/AOS, from OrchidWiz, image #117898, attributed to the William Merritt Collection

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'No. 15' AM/ODC 81.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #426. This plant also received an AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19560067) at the same event.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'No. 15' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Bonanza 'Carmelita' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. Harry C. Webb. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #427.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'No. 14' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #428.

October 16, 1956, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging

[A number of awards from October and November, 1956, as well as some earlier dates, were apparently never published in Orchid Digest, and we found a possible explanation in a comment by the editor, Ed Richard, in Orchid Digest 21(1):5 (January, 1957): "One new regular feature that I plan for The Digest is pictures of Orchid Digest Award Winners. In the October and November judging there were so many fine flowers winning awards that I was forced to feature only Silver Award winners..." It is likely this problem also explains the long list of missing awards from the 4th Western Orchid Congress.]

Cypripedium Good News 'First Edition' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Good News 'First Edition' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. ODC Award Number 165. Published in ODC Awards List, but not found in Orchid Digest 21(1):16 (January, 1957) with the rest of the awards in this group, although its photo appears on the cover of that issue.

Lc. Bonanza 'Vallemar' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Vallemar' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 166. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(1):16 (January, 1957) with black-and-white photo on p. 14, but the labels for Bonanza and Quadroon were switched, corrected in the next issue of Orchid Digest. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19560071).

Cypripedium Pacific Ocean 'Sea Cliff' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 167. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(1):16 (January, 1957), where the grex name is listed incorrectly as Pacifica.

Cypripedium Swallow 'Fairway Park' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Swallow 'Fairway Park' AM/ODC 83.8 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 168. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(1):16 (January, 1957) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19560070).

Lc. Caroline Atherton 'Rachel' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 169. Published in ODC Awards List, and Orchid Digest 21(1):17 (January, 1957).

Cymbidium Dorchester 'Opal Cliffs' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Dorchester 'Opal Cliffs' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Dr. Philip Karleen. ODC Award Number 170. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(1):16 (January, 1957) with black-and-white photo. OrchidWiz (image #287544) has what appears to be a different exposure of the same flower, and the same image is found in OrchidPro, as the plant received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560069) at the same judging session.

Cymbidium Dorchester 'Opal Cliffs' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Odontoglossum crispum var. premier 'Seafoam' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 171. Published in ODC Awards List, .

[At the same event, Lc. Elibo 'Long Beach' received an AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19560072), exhibited by Rod McLellan Co., South San Francisco, CA. This award is not found in ODC records, but the same cultivar was exhibited at the 4th Western Orchid Congress in Long Beach, November, 1955, see above.]

October 22, 1956, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA

[While the SCOS newsletters from this period are apparently lost, and ODC records did not recognize SCOS awards for some months, one award was recovered in the form of an award slide in the Frank Fordyce archive.]

Lc. Louise Kiesewetter 'Sun Acres' HCC/ODC, from the Frank Fordyce archive

Lc. Louise Kiesewetter 'Sun Acres' HCC/ODC 79.2 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. SCOS Award Number 85. Represented by award slide, or a copy of the award slide, in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 7, slide 12).

November 2, 1956, Greater North Texas Orchid Society, Dallas, TX: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Countess' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Countess' AM/ODC 80.6 points, exhibited by Ashcroft Orchids. ODC Award Number 187. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(2):69 (March, 1957) with black-and-white photo. Note: date error! ODC Awards List shows November, 1957; this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19560075) to Ashcroft Orchids at Dallas, Nov. 2, 1956 as 'Countess #1'.

Blc. Janis Lea 'Pamela' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Janis Lea 'Pamela' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Dr. John G. Martin. ODC Award Number 188. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(2):69 (March, 1957), with black-and-white photo on p. 68. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19560077).

Dendrobium Lady Hamilton 'Clarice' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Dendrobium Lady Hamilton 'Clarice' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Leo C. Riley. ODC Award Number 189. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(2):69 (March, 1957), with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560076).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Sylvia' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by Herbert Schoenfeld. ODC Award Number 186. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(2):69 (March, 1957).

[At the same event, Cattleya Henrietta Japhet (no cultivar listed) received a JC/AOS (AOS Award Number 19560072), exhibited by Lines Orchids, Signal Mountain, TN This award is not found in ODC records.]

Cattleya Henrietta Japhet JC/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 26(3):198 (March, 1957)

November 12, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

[OSSC judging was deemed "independent" at this time, see footnote in Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957).]

Lc. Bonanza 'Dr. Etta Gray' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Dr. Etta Gray' AM/ODC 80.1 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(2):69 (March, 1957). Note: OSSC Award No. 429. This seems to be the only award for this judging session that was published in Orchid Digest; the other awards from this session are found in the OSSC newsletters and the OSSC awards list. At the same event, this plant, as cultivar 'Etta Gray', received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19560080).

Lc. Bonanza 'Etta Gray' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 26(4):272 (April, 1957)

Cypripedium Charjan 'Flowerland' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Sawyer. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC Award No. 430.

Blc. Nacouchee 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC Award No. 431.

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Stephenson' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC Award No. 432.

Cattleya Esther Kennedy 'Snow Queen' HCC/ODC, from Frank Fordyce Archive

Cattleya Esther Kennedy 'Snow Queen' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC Award No. 433. The award slide, or at least a copy of it, is found in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 2, sheet 14, slide 4), marked Ⓢ, indicating it came from Stephenson, including the award, point score, date, and OSSC award number.

Blc. Nugget 'Grandeur' HCC/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by Carl Mayer. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #434; OSSC awards list shows the cultivar name as 'Grandeus', but the original publication in the OSSC newsletter shows 'Grandeur'.

Blc. Connie Wallar 'Sunset' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #435.

Lc. Bonanza 'Mt. Bullion' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #436.

November 20, 1956, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Quadroon 'Darky' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Quadroon 'Darky' AM/ODC 84 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 172. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(1):17 (January, 1957) with black-and-white photo on p. 14, which was mislabeled, but corrected in the next issue of Orchid Digest. This plant also received an AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19560084) as cultivar 'Darkie' at Oakland, November 20, 1956, to Nancy Ann Abbott, and the color photo in OrchidWiz, image #117899, attributed to William Merritt Collection, matches the black-and-white award photo published in Orchid Digest (mirror image), although the two images were taken from slightly different positions; notably, the dorsal sepal of one of the flowers in the background is missing from the ODC photo. The photo in OrchidWiz may have been intended for use by AOS, but it did not find its way into the current version of OrchidPro.

Lc. Quadroon 'Darky' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Phalaenopsis Ronnie Wilson 'Mona' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Ronnie Wilson. ODC Award Number 173. Published in ODC Awards List, and Orchid Digest 21(1):17 (January, 1957).

Lc. Quadroon 'Etaoin' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Melvin H. Dittmer. ODC Award Number 174. Published in ODC Awards List, and Orchid Digest 21(1):17 (January, 1957).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Exquisitum' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Exquisitum' AM/ODC 82.5 points, exhibited by Herb Hager Orchids. ODC Award Number 175. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(1):17 (January, 1957) with black-and-white photo on p. 14. The award photo, or a different exposure of the same flower that is not quite an exact match, is also found in OrchidWiz, image #287547, and the latter image is also found in OrchidPro, as the plant received an AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19560083) at the same judging session.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Exquisitum' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cypripedium Pacific Ocean 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 176. Published in ODC Awards List, and Orchid Digest 21(1):17 (January, 1957), where the grex name is listed incorrectly as Pacifica.

Cypripedium Julia Mash 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 177. Published in ODC Awards List, and apparently in Orchid Digest 21(1):17 (January, 1957) but there listed as a duplicate entry for Cypripedium Pacifica 'Vallemar', above, but with the correct point score for award 177 as shown in the ODC Awards List.

Miltonia Pluto 'Katie' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia Pluto 'Katie' AM/ODC 84.3 points, exhibited by George Johnson. ODC Award Number 178. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(1):17 (January, 1957) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19560085).

December 4, 1956, San Francisco Orchid Society Christmas Banquet and Show, San Francisco, CA:

Cypripedium Sunol 'San Francisco' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 180. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(1):8 (January, 1957).

Odontoglossum Mantelus 'Winkie' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. ODC Award Number 154. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(1):8 (January, 1957).

Cypripedium Diversion 'Sandra' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 179. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(1):8 (January, 1957).

Cattleya Bob Betts 'White Sails' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. R. O. Wagner. ODC Award Number 181. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(1):8 (January, 1957).

Blc. Nanette alba 'Purple Streak' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Ronnie Wilson. ODC Award Number 182. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(1):8 (January, 1957).

Miltonia Brama 'Betty Hale' AM/ODC 82.8 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 183. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(1):8 (January, 1957).

December 10, 1956, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA:

Blc. Nacouchee 'Linda Rosa' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #437.

Lc. Memoria Walter L. Armacost 'Benevolence' HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #438.

December 18, 1956, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cypripedium Sunol 'Christmas Cheer' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 185. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957).

[At the same event, AOS records show an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19560089) for Vanda Onomea 'T. Ogawa', exhibited by T. Ogawa, Hilo, HI, and there is a color photo in OrchidPro. This award is not found in ODC records.]

Vanda Onomea 'T. Ogawa' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

January 5, 1957, Peninsula Orchid Society, venue not stated:

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Angel Wings' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 190. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957).

Blc. Pimola 'Holiday' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Pimola 'Holiday' AM/ODC 84.6 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 191. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957), and black-and-white photo on p. 69.

Cypripedium Niveum 'White Elk' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 192. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957).

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Santa Cruz' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Santa Cruz' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 193. Published in ODC Awards List, and Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957) with black-and-white photo. A slightly different exposure, apparently of the same flower, is found in OrchidWiz, image #287550, and the latter image is also found in OrchidPro, as the plant received an AM/AOS ten days later at Oakland (AOS Award Number 19570005, see below). However, the photos are so similar, it is difficult to believe that they were not taken on the same occasion.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Santa Cruz' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

January 14, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

[OSSC judging was deemed "independent" at this time, see footnote in Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957).]

Lc. Anime 'Star' HCC/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(2):69 (March, 1957). Note: OSSC #439.

Blc. Orange Glory 'Empress' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Orange Glory 'Empress' AM/ODC 81.33 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(2):69 (March, 1957) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #440. OrchidWiz has a much better version of the award photo (mirror image), attributed to the Merritt Collection, image #117722. A third version of the award photo (not a mirror image), this one definitely orange, is found in OrchidPro, as this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570001) at the same judging session. How to evaluate these images? We think the contrast has been enhanced on the OrchidWiz photo, resulting in several areas where the detail is completely washed out. However, the OrchidPro image is also highly suspect, because the original description, from the OSSC newsletter for February, 1957, in which the results of judging at the January 14, 1957 meeting were reported, indicate "Three medium-sized flowers distinguished by rich lemon yellow color. Large frilled yellow lip." Noted Pasadena orchid breeder Kay Francis also grew this cultivar; a photo of her specimen also shows the color as deep yellow with a darker lip.

Blc. Orange Glory 'Empress' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz, with exaggerated contrast and what appears to be a processing defect on one of the sepals, but the color is consistent with the award description.

Blc. Orange Glory 'Empress' AM/ODC, from OrchidPro, but the color is not consistent with the award description.

Cypripedium Winston Churchill 'Brentwood' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Paul Weber. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(2):69 (March, 1957). Note: OSSC #441; exhibitor from OSSC newsletter.

[Two more awards, both AM/AOS, are reported at this event in AOS records, but they are not mentioned in the OSSC newsletter that reported the judging results, even though that report included the AM/AOS award for Blc. Orange Glory 'Empress' listed above. There is internal evidence (some apparent reflections in the background) that the AOS award photos in OrchidPro were taken on the same occasion. No explanation has been found for the failure of the OSSC newsletter and the OSSC awards list to include them. The two awards are: Lycaste skinneri 'Olympus' AM/AOS 86 points (AOS Award Number 19570002), and Lycaste skinneri 'Clare Beall' AM/AOS 85 points (AOS Award Number 19570003), both apparently cut flowers, exhibited by William E. Farrell, Bremerton, WA. The correct name of the species is now Lycaste virginalis.]

Lycaste virginalis 'Olympus' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lycaste virginalis 'Clare Beall' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

January 15, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Marjorie' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Robert Gunther. ODC Award Number 194. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957).

Lc. Rita Cobb 'Hillsborough' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Rita Cobb 'Hillsborough' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 195. Published in ODC Awards List, and in Orchid Digest 21(2):68 (March, 1957), with black-and-white photo. OrchidWiz has a different exposure apparently showing the same flower (mirror image, and some of the background is different), image #117907, attributed to the William Merritt Collection. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19570004).

Lc. Rita Cobb 'Hillsborough' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

[At the same event, AOS records include an AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570005) for Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Santa Cruz', exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens, Capitola, CA. This cultivar was not judged by ODC on January 15, because it had already received an equivalent award ten days earlier at the Peninsula Orchid Society Show, see above. However, the photos for these two awards are so similar, it is difficult to believe they were not taken at the same judging session. The two award reports are likely correct, but it might be that the AOS award photo was actually from the ODC judging session.]

February 11, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Odontoglossum Framee 'Malibu' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Framee 'Malibu' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):120-121 (May, 1957) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #442. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19570017).

Oncidium Framee 'Malibu' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cypripedium Yerba Buena 'Brentwood' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Yerba Buena 'Brentwood' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by R. A. MacLeod. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #443. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19570015). In this instance, the ODC and AOS photos are mirror images of each other, but their are not clear enough to be sure that both images come from the same exposure.

Paphiopedilum Yerba Buena 'Brentwood' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 26(8):567 (August, 1957)

Lc. Atlantis 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Atlantis 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC 81.2 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #444; OSSC newsletter shows the cultivar name as 'Surprise'. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570016).

Cattleya Atlantis 'Sunny Hills' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 26(8):567 (August, 1957)

Cypripedium M'Lou (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. W. H. Butikofer. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #445; published in Orchid Digest as Cyp. Mimosa × Nugget; cultivar 'M'Lou' as in the old dance tune, "Skip to My Lou"; OSSC awards list shows cultivar as 'Malu', original publication in OSSC newsletter did not give a cultivar name.

Lc. Trail's End 'Magnifica' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #446.

Lc. DeLoris Ziegfield 'Grand Monarch' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #447; award designation and score from OSSC newsletter.

February 19, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging]

Lc. Bonanza 'Sun Acres' AM/ODC, from Fordyce archive

Lc. Bonanza 'Sun Acres' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 196. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):120 (May, 1957). A likely copy of the award slide, marked Ⓢ, indicating it was from Stephenson, was found in the Fordyce archive in a group of slides for hybrid names A-C, but with award information shown as "HCC 76.0 2-24-58", pertaining to a different award for Stephenson's Bonanza cultivar 'Crown Jewel', see below. The flower shown in this slide appears to be a cut flower.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Phoebe' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 197. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):120 (May, 1957). At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570024).

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Phoebe' AM/ODC, from OrchidPro

Odontioda Melina 'Alpha' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontioda Melina 'Alpha' AM/ODC 81.6 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 198. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):120 (May, 1957) with black-and-white photo (caption gives grex name incorrectly as Malina). At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19570025).

Cymbidium Profita 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 199. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):120 (May, 1957).

Cymbidium Marmie Kingsford 'Shamrock' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 200. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):120 (May, 1957).

Cymbidium Marmie Kingsford 'Lake Merritt' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 201. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):120 (May, 1957).

Phalaenopsis Dos Pueblos 'Vallemar' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Dos Pueblos 'Vallemar' AM/ODC 83.6 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 202. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):120 (May, 1957) and black-and-white photo on the cover of the same issue, although the copy of that issue we obtained was badly disfigured. The ODC Awards List gives the cultivar name as 'Phoebe', in error; the original award and photo in Orchid Digest call it 'Vallemar'.

March, 1957, unknown venue:

Cymbidium Crescendo 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 203. Published in ODC Awards List.

Cymbidium Bodmin Moor 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 204. Published in ODC Awards List.

March 9, 1957, Monterey Bay Orchid Society Annual Show, Watsonville, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

[A report of this show was published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel Monday, March 11, 1957, from which we established that the show was indeed held in Watsonville. The venue was not listed in Orchid Digest.]

Cypripedium Glenshea 'Dorothy' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by C. E. Wilson Jr. ODC Award Number 206. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

Cypripedium Andreen 'Green Monarch' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. ODC Award Number 207. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

Phalaenopsis Clara I. Knight 'Monterey Bay' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Robert Bean. ODC Award Number 208. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957).

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Shadycrest' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cochrane. ODC Award Number 209. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

Cymbidium York 'La Cumbre' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 210. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

Cymbidium Rosemary Upton 'Amarillo' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 211. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957).

Cymbidium Chapala 'Verde' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 212. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

Lc. Telegraph Hill 'Grace' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Telegraph Hill 'Sugar' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. McRossie. ODC Award Number 213. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957). Illustrating the same list of awards, on p. 174, there is a photo of "Lc. Telegraph Hill 'Grace' ", but that cultivar name is not among the listed awards. We think it most likely corresponds with the award listed in the text as cultivar 'Sugar', on the theory that the cultivar names of the other two Telegraph Hill cultivars awarded at the same show are clearly associated with the other exhibitor, Sanford R. Parks; one of them, 'Carrie Parks', was apparently named after his mother. Sanford's wife in the 1950 census was Dorothy. The other exhibitor, R. "McRossie", appears to be the Robert S. Macrossie (1894-1966) who lived in Salinas, CA, and whose wife on the 1940 and 1950 censuses was Grace. The very similar exposure of the same flower, in color (mirror image, the cultivar listed as 'Sugar'), is found in OrchidWiz, image #117958. At the same event, this plant, under the cultivar name 'Sugar', received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570043).

Lc. Telegraph Hill 'Grace' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Lc. Telegraph Hill 'Sandoro' HCC/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Parks. ODC Award Number 214. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957).

Lc. Telegraph Hill 'Carrie Parks' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Parks. ODC Award Number 215. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957).

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Puritan' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Puritan' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 216. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 and 174 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. A different exposure of the same flower (AOS judging occurred at the same show. this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points, AOS Award Number 19570036), in color, is found in OrchidWiz, image #287558.

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Puritan' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cymbidium Balkis 'Supreme' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Balkis 'Supreme' AM/ODC 80.9 points, exhibited by Herb Hager Orchids. ODC Award Number 217. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 and 174 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. A slightly different exposure of the same flower, in color, is found in OrchidWiz, image #287559. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570037).

Cymbidium Balkis 'Supreme' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Perfection' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Perfection' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Philip Karleen. ODC Award Number 218. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. When first published, the awarded plant was identified as Cymbidium Alexanderi Perfection 'Judith Karleen', with parentage Alexanderi 'Westonbirt' × Alexanderi 'Album'. The corresponding AM/AOS award, 81 points, from the same show (AOS Award Number 19570038) has an award photo, but it shows a different flower, very likely from the same spike, and calls the plant Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Judith Karleen'.

Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Judith Karleen' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro, the same plant at the same event

Cattleya Eloquence 'Covenanter' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Eloquence 'Covenanter' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 219. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 and 173 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570035).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Monterey Bay' AM/ODC 85.3 points, exhibited by T. Tomiyasu. ODC Award Number 220. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 85 points (AOS Award Number 19570045, with a color photo in OrchidPro).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Monterey Bay' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Hemptette 'Halo' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Hemptette 'Halo' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Simpson. ODC Award Number 221. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 and 174 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. The grex name is sometimes found, incorrectly, as Hemplette, Hamptette, etc. At the same event, this plant (as Cymbidium Hamptette!) received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570039).

Cymbidium Blue Queen 'Tiffany' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 222. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

Cattleya Barbara Kirch 'Aprica' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 223. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

Dendrobium Lady Hamilton 'Tomiyasu' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Severin. ODC Award Number 224. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957).

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Monterey Bay' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Monterey Bay' AM/ODC 83.1 points, exhibited by Robert Bean. ODC Award Number 225. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 and 173 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. A much clearer color version of the same award photo (but poorly cropped, and we have no idea why only a single flower is shown) is found in OrchidWiz, image #287561, from AOS judging (AM/AOS 83 points, AOS Award Number 19570044) at the same show. The AOS award description notes six large flowers, and that "10 flowers had been removed from the spike".

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Monterey Bay' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cypripedium Golden Diana 'Pajaro' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Golden Diana 'Pajaro' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 226. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 and 173 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. The cultivar name is not, directly at least, a reference to exotic birds of Latin America; it is an allusion to the venue for the show, the Pajaro Valley National Bank in Watsonville. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19570041).

Cypripedium Cherrington 'Mona' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Cherrington 'Mona' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Ronnie Wilson. ODC Award Number 227. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570042).

Cymbidium Hawtescens 'FCC/RHS' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Hawtescens 'FCC/RHS' AM/ODC 81.1 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 228. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):172 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570040).

[At the same event, AOS records include Cypripedium delenatii 'Pinkie' JC/AOS (AOS Award Number 19570046), exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott, not found in ODC records.]

March 11, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cymbidium Paracel 'Picture' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Paracel 'Picture' AM/ODC 81.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3): 120 and 121 (May, 1957) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #448; Orchid Digest still shows this group of OSSC awards as "independent". An excellent color version of the award photo is found in OrchidWiz, image #287566, from AOS judging at the same OSSC meeting (AM/AOS 82 points, AOS Award Number 19570051).

Cymbidium Paracel 'Picture' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Paisley' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #449.

Cymbidium Blue Queen 'Tiffany' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #450.

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Fanfare' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #451.

Lc. Paradisio 'Heritage' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by A. R. Mulethaler. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #452.

Cattleya Mission Dolores 'Hollywood' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #453.

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Kay Hauser' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Dr. W. G. Johnston. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957). Note: OSSC #454.

March 19, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Leo Holguin' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Leo Holguin' AM/ODC 82.5 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 205. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):120 and 121 (May, 1957) with black-and-white photo. A different exposure of the same plant, from AOS judging at the same OSC meeting (AM/AOS 83 points, AOS Award Number 19570055), in color, is found in OrchidWiz, image #287567.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Leo Holguin' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

March 25, 1957, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lycaste skinneri 'Alene' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lycaste skinneri 'Alene' AM/ODC 87.3 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 230. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957) and the likely award photo on the cover of Orchid Digest 24(8) (September-October, 1960).

Cymbidium Prince Charles 'Josiah' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Ed Ball. ODC Award Number 231. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957).

Coelogyne mooreana 'Volunteer Park' AM/ODC 84.6 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 232. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(3):121 (May, 1957).

[At the same event, oddly, AOS records give three awards, completely different from the ones reported by ODC: Odontioda Bradshawiae 'Thelma' AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19570056); Odontoglossum Welland 'Rainier' AM/AOS 86 points (AOS Award Number 19570057); and Miltonia Ninety-one (or Ninety One, which is incorrect) 'Ruth Newman' AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570058).]

April 8, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Killarney' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Killarney' AM/ODC 80.4 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):173 and 174 (July, 1957) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #455. The list for this group of awards in Orchid Digest has an asterisk after the heading "Orchid Digest Corporation Awards", but there is no corresponding footnote. The missing footnote was probably intended to be the same one found in the preceding issue, indicating that the OSSC and SCOS awards were at that timne considered "independent". A slightly different exposure of the same plant, in color, is found in OrchidWiz, image #287569, from AOS judging at the same OSSC meeting (AM/AOS 80 points, AOS Award Number 19570066).

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Killarney' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cymbidium Claud Read 'Gladys Hager' HCC/ODC 78.7 points, exhibited by Herb Hager Orchids. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #456; published in Orchid Digest as "Cym. Martha Church × Imogoene" (=Imogene!); also, this grex name can be found (incorrectly) as Claude Read.

Cymbidium Joan of Arc 'Memoria David McLean' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Dick Merrick and Hazel McLean. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #457.

Lc. Snowdrift 'The Globe' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #458.

Cymbidium Samarinda 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #459; original publication in the OSSC newsletter shows "Cym Alexanderi W'birt x Constance Flory, and in the OSSC awards list, "Unregistered", but giving the same parentage; the hybrid was eventually registered in 1960 by Fred A. Stewart, Inc.

Cymbidium Lump O' Gold 'Nugget' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Marvin Summerfield. ODC Award Number . Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):174 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #460.

April 16, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Trimos 'Lake Merritt' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Jack C. Batten. ODC Award Number 229. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

[AOS records show only one award for this event, for a different plant, Lc. Sweet Orange 'Pure Gold' AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570068), exhibited by George Cutler, San Francisco, CA.]

May 13, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Lc. Bonanza 'Talisman' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Talisman' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):174 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #461. As published in Orchid Digest, and in spite of a decision published earlier, this group of awards was designated "independent". At the same event, this plant received an AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570078).

Cattleya Bonanza (Bracey) 'Talisman' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 26(9):645

Cattleya Bonanza (Bracey) 'Talisman' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 53(11):1136

Cattleya mossiae 'Giganteum' (F3) HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Glenn W. Hamilton. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):174 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #462.

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Florence' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by F. Benson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):174 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #463.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Mona Lisa' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):174 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #464.

Cymbidium Fantasia 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):174 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #465.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Lady Rose' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(4):174 (July, 1957). Note: OSSC #466.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Lucinda' CCM/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by Frank Williams. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter only, as far as we know. Note: OSSC #467. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS (AOS Award Number 19570079), and there is a color photo in OrchidPro. The OSSC newsletter says "Unanimous Certificate of Cultural Merit, A.O.S., 82.7 pts.", which could be interpreted to mean that no OSSC award was conferred for this plant, as all the other awards listed in that newsletter specified OSSC award status. Arguing against this position, however, is the fact that the same newsletter award lists also gives this plant an OSSC award number.

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Lucinda' CCM/AOS, from OrchidPro

May 27, 1957, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA (OD gives date incorrectly as May 17, 1957):

Lc. Gitchie Manito 'Big Chief' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 233. Published in ODC Awards List, 21(4):173 (July, 1957), and this group of awards still regarded there apparently as "independent", in spite of a decision published earlier.

Cypripedium Clair de Lune 'Mary's Heaven' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 234. Published in ODC Awards List, 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

June 10, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Blue Moon' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Blue Moon' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by Mark L. Higgins. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957) and OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #468. Orchid Digest published this group of awards for the first time without the caveat that OSSC and SCOS awards were considered "independent". The same award photo, in color, is found in OrchidWiz, image #287573. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570080).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Blue Moon' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Vanda Nellie Morley '#2' HCC/ODC 79.1 points, exhibited by Takumi Kono. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #469; omitted from OSSC awards list and Orchid Digest. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS (this is the first occasion when HCC awards were published by AOS, but at this time not yet with any descriptive data) 79 points (AOS Award Number 19570081), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Papilionanda Nellie Morley 'No. 2' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Vanda Oscar Kirsch '#1' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Takumi Kono. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #470; omitted from OSSC awards list and Orchid Digest. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19570082), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Vanda Oscar Kirsch 'No. 1' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cattleya White Blossom 'Orchid Manor' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Grace Krebs. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #471. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19570083), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cattleya White Blossom 'Orchid Manor' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Bonanza 'Texas' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #472; cultivar name in OSSC awards list is 'Texas', but published in Orchid Digest and the OSSC newsletter as 'Texan'. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19570084), with cultivar name 'Texan'.

Lc. Margate 'Palmer's' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by K. L. Palmer. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #473. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570085), and there is a color photo in OrchidWiz, image #117826, attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Cattleya Margate 'Palmer' HCC/AOS, from OrchidWiz

Lc. Eugene Casey 'Jan Ellen' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #474. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19570086).

Phalaenopsis Margaret Bean 'Goleta' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Robert Bean. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #475. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570088), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Phalaenopsis Margaret Bean 'Goleta' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Sandra Ozzella 'Sunset' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Joe Ozzella. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #476. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570087).

June 18, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA:

Bc. Ann Sladden 'Boehmer' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Phillip C. Boehmer. ODC Award Number 235. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(4):173 (July, 1957).

June 24, 1957, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 236. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):279 (November, 1957).

Lc. Joseph Mark 'Las Vegas' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Grayce Hecker. ODC Award Number 237. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):279 (November, 1957).

Lc. Zona 'Margaret' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by John N. Vidulich. ODC Award Number 238. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):279 (November, 1957).

July 8, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Blc. Helios 'Malibu' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Helios 'Malibu' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957) with black-and-white photo on the cover. Note: OSSC #477. The same award photo, in color (mirror image) is found in OrchidWiz, image #117608, attributed to the William Merritt Collection; the plant received an AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570092) at the same OSSC meeting.

Blc. Helios 'Malibu' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cattleya Tethys 'Blueblood' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Tethys 'Blueblood' HCC/ODC 79.4 points, exhibited by Murray Spencer. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #478. The award photo, in color, is found in OrchidWiz, image #287579; the same plant received an HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19570094) at the same OSSC meeting.

Cattleya Tethys 'Blueblood' HCC/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Robert J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #479. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570096), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Papilionanda Nellie Morley 'Del Mar' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Lean Baldwin 'Questover' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Rolan R. Howard. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: OSSC #480. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19570095), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cattleya Lena Baldwin 'Questover' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Maxillaria tenuifolia CCM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Albert R. Moore. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter only. Note: OSSC #481. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570093).

July 22, 1957, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Blc. Camilla 'Goldilocks' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Bernie Woods. ODC Award Number 239. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957). Note: ODC Awards List shows date in error as August, 1957.

Lc. Marian Andrews 'Othelia Marie' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by E. F. Christensen. ODC Award Number 240. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(5):227 (September, 1957).

August 8, 1957, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach (but the meeting date should have been August 26!):

Lc. Sandra Ozzella 'Comet' HCC/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 241. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):279 (November, 1957).

Lc. Memoria Albert Heinecke 'Barry' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Herbert Davis. ODC Award Number 242. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):279 (November, 1957).

August 12, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Elegans 'Brazilian Queen' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #482. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570099).

Phalaenopsis Doris 'Leedja' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #483. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570100), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Phalaenopsis Doris 'Leedja' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

August 19, 1957, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Lc. Derryname 'Seattle Heights' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 245. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):280 (November, 1957).

Lc. Los Angeles 'Green Fire' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Los Angeles 'Green Fire' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 246. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):280 (November, 1957) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Leschi' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Leschi' HCC/ODC 79.7 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 247. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):280 (November, 1957) with black-and-white photo.

August 20, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Sharp Peak' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Sharp Peak' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 243. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):279 and 280 (November, 1957) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Sandra Ozzella 'Desert Gold' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Sandra Ozzella 'Desert Gold' AM/ODC 83.3 points, exhibited by Walter F. Bertsch. ODC Award Number 244. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 21(6):279 (November, 1957) and black-and-white photo on the cover of the same issue. The same award photo, in color (mirror image), is found in OrchidWiz, image #1179022, attributed to the William Merritt Collection. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19570106).

Lc. Sandra Ozzella 'Desert Gold' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

September 9, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Lornthia 'Princess' HCC/ODC 78.9 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #484; OSSC awards for this month were omitted from ODC Awards List, but listed as valid awards without qualification in Orchid Digest. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19570115), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Laeliocatanthe Lornthia 'Princess' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Berwick' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #485. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19570113), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Berwick' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cypripedium Greentippe 'Arcadia' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Everett Wilcox. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #486. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19570114).

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Herbrita' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by H. C. [should be H. W.!] Crothers. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #487. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570112).

Phalaenopsis Doris 'Connie' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Lois A. Todd. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #488. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570116), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Phalaenopsis Doris 'Connie' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Bc. Cajolery 'Harvest Moon' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #489. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570111), and OrchidPro has a color photo. There is also a better version of the award photo in OrchidWiz, image #117442, attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Rhyncholaeliocattleya Cajolery 'Harvest Moon' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Rhyncholaeliocattleya Cajolery 'Harvest Moon' HCC/AOS, from OrchidWiz

October 14, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya White Sail 'Del Mar' CCM/ODC, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #490. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS (AOS Award Number 19570135), and OrchidPro has a color photo. The OSSC newsletter mentions only AOS judging, not ODC judging, for the entire group of awards for this month, but the awards were published in Orchid Digest nevertheless as ODC awards, but not in the ODC Awards List.

Cattleya White Sail 'Del Mar' CCM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Snowdrift 'Penn Valley' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Snowdrift 'Penn Valley' AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):15 and 16 (January, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #491. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19570133). OrchidPro unaccountably lists this award as Cymbidium Snowdrift 'Penn Valley' rather than the current correct designation, Cattleya Snowdrift (1939) 'Penn Valley'! A color version of the award photo (mirror image) is in OrchidWiz, image #117931, attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Lc. Snowdrift 'Penn Valley' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Vanda Jennie Hashimoto 'Clara M. Hogan' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Jennie Hashimoto 'Clara M. Hogan' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by Dr. W. G. Johnson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #492. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570134). A color version of the same award photo is in OrchidWiz, image #287590.

Vanda Jennie Hashimoto 'Clara M. Hogan' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Phalaenopsis Pasadena 'Point Dume' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Mrs. Lois A. Todd. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #493. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570138), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Phalaenopsis Pasadena 'Point Dume' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Derrynane 'Donegal' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #494. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570136).

Lc. R. J. Chrisman 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: OSSC #495. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19570137).

October 15, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Price' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 248. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570141), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Price' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

[At the same event, AOS records include two additional awards: Vanda Nellie Morley 'Pauline Hall' AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570139, and a black-and-white photo was published in the AOS Bulletin 27(2):119 (February, 1958)), exhibited by H. H. Morley, Honolulu, HI, and Blc. San Leandro 'Mount Eden' HCC/AOS (AOS Award Number 19570140), exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co., Mt. Eden, CA.]

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Pauline Hall' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

October 21, 1957, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Lc. Seattle 'Dolores' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 249. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958).

Lc. Texas 'Royalist' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 250. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958).

October 28, 1957, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Cattleya Portia 'Westonbirt' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by John Hanes. ODC Award Number 261. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958).

Lc. Marguerite O'Leary 'Minnie' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Howard A. Anderson. ODC Award Number 262. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958). Note: SCOS and Orchid Digest show grex as Marge O'Leary, Morvyth Mag x Washington.

Cypripedium Miracle 'Victory' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Nell Howard. ODC Award Number 263. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958).

Cattleya Porcia 'Cannizaro' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Porcia 'Cannizaro' AM/ODC 82.2 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 264. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 and 16 (January, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Del Mar'` HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 265. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958).

Cattleya Portia 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 266. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Serene' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Serene' AM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 267. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 and 16 (January, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

November 2, 1957, Greater North Texas Orchid Society, Dallas, TX: [With concurrent AOS judging

Odontoglossum grande 'Dallas' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 428. Published in ODC Awards List, AOS Bulletin 27(6):405 (June, 1958) with black-and-white photo, but this group of awards has not yet been found in Orchid Digest. Note: possible ODC award number error? At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570175).

Odontoglossum grande 'Dallas' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Phoebe' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 434. Published in ODC Awards List, AOS Bulletin 27(6):405 (June, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570176).

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Phoebe' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Signal Mountain' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Rivermont Orchids. ODC Award Number 435. Published in ODC Awards List, AOS Bulletin 27(6):406 (June, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19570178).

Cattleya Eloquence 'Celeste' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Dr. John G. Martin. ODC Award Number 436. Published in ODC Awards List, AOSBulletin 27(6):406 (June, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19570177).

Lc. Bonanza 'Smuggler' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Joe Meador. ODC Award Number 437. Published in ODC Awards List, AOSBulletin 27(6):406 (June, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19570179).

Blc. Janis Lea 'Gloria' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Furrow and Company. ODC Award Number 439. Published in ODC Awards List, AOSBulletin 27(6):405 (June, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19570174).

Blc. Janis Lea 'Gloria' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

November 11, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Lorena Gore' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #496.

Lc. Bagatelle 'Questover' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. Rolan R. Howard. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #497. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570145).

Lc. Ennerdale 'Volunteer Park' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #498. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570146).

Cattleya David Tipton 'Rufus' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #499. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19570144).

Lc. Bonanza 'Indian Summer' HCC/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #500. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19570147).

Lc. Quadroon 'Red Velvet' AM/ODC 80.1 points, exhibited by Westenberger Orchid Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #501. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19570143), and the apparent award photo is in OrchidWiz, image #117901, attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Cattleya Quadroon 'Red Velvet' HCC/AOS, from OrchidWiz

November 18, 1957, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Bc. Deesse 'French Lace' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 254. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: Orchid Digest gives correct spelling.

Lc. George MacDonell 'Volunteer Park' HCC/ODC 78.7 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 255. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958). Note: Orchid Digest shows grex as George MacDonald.

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Knute' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 256. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):16 (January, 1958).

November 19, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cypripedium Sunol 'William Wilson' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Sunol 'William Wilson' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 251. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570151).

Vanda Eisenhower 'Tomiyasu' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by T. Tomiyasu. ODC Award Number 252. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958). Note: ODC Awards List gives date as November, 1958 in error. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570153).

Cypripedium La Honda 'Guy Stoddard' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 253. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570152).

November 25, 1957, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Cattleya Hanniwell 'Frosty' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Alfred R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 268. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):16(January, 1958).

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Jeff' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 269. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958).

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Velda' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Velda' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 270. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 and 16 (January, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Pole Star' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 271. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(1):15 (January, 1958).

December 9, 1957, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Bonanza 'Abundance' AM/ODC 81.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #502; OSSC newsletter specifies "Southern California Regional A.O.S. Judging". AOS records for this group of awards show this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570163).

Cattleya David Tipton 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC 81.6 points, exhibited by Arthur Falk. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #503. AOS records for this group of awards show this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19570162).

Phalaenopsis Star of Rio 'Malibu' HCC/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #504. AOS records for this group of awards show this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570167), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Phalaenopsis Star of Rio 'Malibu' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Governor Gore 'Sunny Hills' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #505. AOS records for this group of awards show this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19570165).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Majorie' ('Marjorie') HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Robert A. Gunther. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #506. AOS records for this group of awards show this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570164).

Lc. Hyperion 'Orchidhaven' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #507; OSSC awards list shows cultivar as 'Orchidhurst', but the newsletter shows 'Orchidhaven'. AOS records for this group of awards show this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570166). A photo of this cultivar was published in the AOS Bulletin 27(1):57 (January, 1958) in an advertisement by B. O. Bracey and Company, not indicating the award, which, of course, had not yet been officially published. This might be the award photo, but until an award slide is located, we have no way to be sure. There have been no other awards for this cultivar. The cultivar presumably originated at the Patterson and Sons nursery, Orchidhaven, in Bergenfield, NJ. A color photograph that we think may be be a different shot of the same flower appeared in Courtney T. Hackney's American Cattleyas (2004, plate G-25, source indicated as Roy Field — Roy would have had access to the award slides).

Cattleya Hyperion 'Orchidhaven' HCC/AOS, from advertisement in AOS Bulletin

December 12, 1957, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. Integrity 'Distinction' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 315. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958).

Lc. La Telle 'Harmony' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 316. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958).

Lc. Elissa 'Crimson Queen' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Elissa 'Crimson Queen' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 317. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Blc. Orange Glory 'Golden Queen' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Orange Glory 'Golden Queen' AM/ODC 82.3 points, exhibited by Gubler Orchids. ODC Award Number 318. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 and 75 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Governor Gore 'Sunny Hills' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 319. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958).

Lc. Bonanza 'Susan' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 320. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958).

Cypripedium Battle of Egypt 'Alpha' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 321. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958).

Cypripedium John Pitts 'Black-Knight' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by John W. Hanes. ODC Award Number 322. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958). Note: Orchid Digest has grex John Pitt, no S.

Cypripedium Cavalese 'Majesticum' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by John W. Hanes. ODC Award Number 323. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958).

Lc. Grubstake 'Sunny Hills' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 324. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958).

Cypripedium Good News 'First Edition' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by John W. Hanes. ODC Award Number 325. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'La Habra' HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Mary Agnes Chase. ODC Award Number 326. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958). Note: Not found in SCOS Dec. 12.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Snow Bird' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Snow Bird' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Howard A. Anderson. ODC Award Number 327. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Cypripedium Gigi 'La Premiere' HCC/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by Gubler Orchids. ODC Award Number 328. Published in ODC Awards List with date indicated as December, 1957, apparently belongs here, although it is not mentioned in the report of this judging session in Orchid Digest 22(2)75 (March, 1958).

Cypripedium Esther (no cultivar listed) HCC/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by Roland Howard. Lacks ODC award number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958). Note: This award is found in Orchid Digest (no number listed there), but is not in the ODC Awards List. Is it possible these two awards, Gigi and Esther, have been conflated in some way? This is the only award in the group that was published without parentage. The meeting summary (Orchid Digest 22(1):29 (January, 1958)) says there were 14 awards given at the judging session, but if both Gigi and Esther are included, that would make 15 awards for the session. We strongly suspect one of these is a plant that did not actually receive an award, and suspicion naturally falls on Esther, not found in the ODC awards list and the only one for which the parentage was not recorded.

December 16, 1957, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Snowy River' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Snowy River' AM/ODC 85.3 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 275. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Cypripedium Hunter's Point 'San Francisco' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 257. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Cypripedium La Honda 'San Francisco' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 258. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Phalaenopsis Dos Pueblos 'Pacifica' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 259. Published in ODC Awards List, .

Odontoglossum Sirion 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 260. Published in ODC Awards List, .

December 17, 1957, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Cymbidium Jolity 'Earliest' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 272. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):73 (March, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19570170).

Cypripedium Huntava 'Woodland' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 273. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):73 (March, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19570171), and OrchidPro has a color photo. Note: Orchid Digest shows grex as Huntanva.

Cypripedium Huntava 'Woodland' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Blc. Nacouchee 'Mission Valley' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Nacouchee 'Mission Valley' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Ray and Ruby Alberts. ODC Award Number 274. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):73 and 74 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. A color version of the same photo (mirror image) is in OrchidWiz, image #117707, attributed to the William Merritt Collection, too blue, but, at least in this version very creatively illuminated. At the same event, this plant receivewd AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19570169), and OrchidPro has a different version of the same award photo, this time in pale pink-orange tones. What color should it be? The AOS award description specifies "overall light pink color; pink fringed labellum with greenish yellow throat". It appears the version in OrchidWiz may have been "adjusted" in some way, resulting in exaggerated contrast and a peculiar color balance.

Blc. Nacouchee 'Mission Valley' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Blc. Nacouchee 'Mission Valley' AM/ODC, from OrchidPro

January 13, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA (awards listed in OSSC newsletter only as AOS awards, but published without qualification as ODC awards in Orchid Digest): [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Lynda' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Lynda' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Robert Fujino. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):76 and 77 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #508. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580006).

Blc. Carousel 'Chechako' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Carousel 'Chechako' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Glen Hamilton. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #509; grex listed in Orchid Digest as Blc. Greenheart × Lc. Lee Langford, as the hybrid had not yet been registered when the award was made. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580005).

Cypripedium Gigi 'Martin Randig' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Martin Randig. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #510; OSSC newsletter shows this plant as "Cypripedium Sheba x Lumage 'Martin Randig'; the correct identity is found in the corresponding AOS award record for the same date, Paphiopedilum Gigi (Sheba (1941) × Momag). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580012

Lc. Hertha 'Mater Familias' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #511. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580016).

Cypripedium Reezy 'Martha' HCC/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by Alvin and Emily Embree. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #512 Orchid Digest shows grex as Cypripedium Agnes De Burk (should be Agnes de Burc) x Denehurst, as the hybrid had not yet been registered when awarded. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580015).

Vanda Onomea 'T. Ogawa' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by T. Ogawa. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #513. At the same event, this plant, under the cultivar name 'Wane Ogawa', received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580017).

Vanda Maurice Restrepo 'White Ruffles' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Mark L. Higgins. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #514. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580018).

Phalaenopsis Ronnie Wilson 'Pink Pearl' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #515. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580008).

Cymbidium Great Day 'Misty Morn' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #516. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580011). What may be the award photo (listed as H.C.C., AOS, although the award had not been officially published at that time) is featured on the inside of the back cover of AOS Bulletin 27(4) (April, 1958) in an advertisement by Fred A. Stewart, Inc.

Cymbidium Great Day 'Misty Morn' HCC/AOS, from advertisement in AOS Bulletin

Blc. Irene Searles 'Claire' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by H. W. Crothers. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #517; Orchid Digest shows grex as Lc. Paradisio x Bc. Mossiama, as the hybrid had not yet been registered when awarded. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580010).

Vanda Onomea 'Diane' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Onomea 'Diane' AM/ODC 82.6 points, exhibited by T. Ogawa. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):76 and 77 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #518. At the same event, this plant, under the cultivar name 'Diane Ogawa', received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19580009).

Cypripedium Malibu 'Green Meadows' HCC/ODC 76.9 points, exhibited by John W. Hanes. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #519; Orchid Digest shows grex as Cyp. Rustington × Bittina (should be Ruskington × Bettina), as the hybrid had not yet been registered. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580014).

Cypripedium Whitemoor 'Snowmaiden' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Whitmore [should be Whitemoor] 'Snowmaiden' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Dr. Lee W. Lenz. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):76 and 77 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #520; OSSC newsletter, indicating only AOS judging, shows AM/AOS 85.86 points, but OSSC awards list shows score as 81.3 points, suggesting that the OSSC newsletter had simply omitted any differing OSSC (and thus ODC) point scores. AOS records show this plant received AM/AOS 86 points (AOS Award Number 19580007).

Cypripedium Jim Dandy 'Regent' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: OSSC #521. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580013).

January 18, 1958, Peninsula Orchid Society, venue not stated:

Phalaenopsis Katherine Siegwart 'Supreme' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Wilson's Orchids. ODC Award Number 276. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958). Note: Orchid Digest shows date January 18, 1957 instead of 1958, in error.

Blc. Jane Helton 'Beth' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Jane Helton 'Beth' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Millicent Brown. ODC Award Number 277. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):75 and 77 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Cypripedium Julia Mash 'Christine' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. ODC Award Number 278. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):77 (March, 1958).

January 20, 1958, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Cymbidium Sayonara 'Trude Stephenson' HCC/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 279. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958).

Odontioda Carmine 'Crimson Queen' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontioda Carmine 'Crimson Queen' AM/ODC 83.1 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 280. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Hope' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Hope' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 281. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958).

Odontoglossum Faidherbe 'Profusion' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 282. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Scintillation 'Ruth Newman' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Lee L. Newman. ODC Award Number 283. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):76 (March, 1958).

January 21, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Marjorie' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Marjorie' AM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by Robert Gunther. ODC Award Number 284. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Orchid Digest lists cultivar in the text as 'Marjorie O.', but 'Marjorie' in the photo caption. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580022).

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Marjorie' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Lc. Grubstake 'Dividend' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 285. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 (March, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580028, under the grex name Grub Stake, which is incorrect).

Cypripedium Noyo 'Strawberry Hill' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Noyo 'Strawberry Hill' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by Charles Blyth. ODC Award Number 286. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580024).

Cypripedium Noyo 'Strawberry Hill' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 287. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. A color version of the award photo is in OrchidWiz, image #287600. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580021).

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cypripedium Jim Dandy 'Marjorie' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Jim Dandy 'Marjorie' AM/ODC 82.3 points, exhibited by Robert A. Gunther. ODC Award Number 288. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 and 75 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580023).

Cypripedium Jim Dandy 'Marjorie' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Lc. Areca 'Model' FCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Areca 'Model' FCC/ODC 90 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 289. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):73 and 74 (March, 1958) with black-and-white model. At the same event, this plant received FCC/AOS 90 points (AOS Award Number 19580020), and OrchidPro has a color photo. However, the two images do not show the same flower and might not even be from the same flowering. This cultivar (both as Model, and, incorrectly, as Madel!) has been shown in the AOS Bulletin at least eight times. On the first occasion, the black-and-white photo in AOS Bulletin 27(4):255 (April, 1958) matches the one published with the ODC award. The same photo was published again, on the cover of the May, 1959 issue of the AOS Bulletin (28(5)). A very different photo was published in an advertisement by B. O. Bracey and Company in the February, 1961 issue. Yet another, different photo was published in an advertisement by Orchids Orlando in the September and October, 1969 issues. The most recent photo, a color image that looks fairly old, is in Orchids 76(7):528 (July, 2007), the photo credited to Bill Moon, from a plant in the collection of Jeff Bradley, illustrating his article about "The American Heritage Collection of Orchids", not relevant to the question of where the OrchidPro photo came from. Whatever its source, the OrchidPro image supposed to be Areca 'Model' is unlike any other image of this cultivar we have been able to examine; among other issues, the proportions of the segments appear to be very different from all the other images. The question might be resolved if we can locate the AOS award slide.

Lc. Areca 'Model' FCC/ODC, from OrchidPro

Lc. Areca 'Model' FCC/ODC, from AOS Bulletin 27(4):255

Lc. Bonanza 'Deer Creek' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Deer Creek' AM/ODC 82.6 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 290. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 (March, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19580025).

Lc. Fort Ross 'Magnia' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 291. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 (March, 1958). Note: Orchid Digest and OrchidPro list this cultivar as 'Magma', which is likely correct. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580020)

Lc. Bonanza 'Wasatch' FCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Wasatch' FCC/ODC 90.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 292. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):73 (March, 1958) with a black-and-white photo on the cover of that issue. At the same event, this plant received FCC/AOS 91 points (AOS Award Number 19580019). Oddly, AOS seems never to have published a color photo of this excellent cultivar.

Cypripedium La Honda 'Strawberry Hill' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Charles Blyth. ODC Award Number 293. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(2):74 (March, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580026).

February 7, 1958, Greater North Texas Orchid Society, Dallas, TX:

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Julie' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by D. G. Bell. ODC Award Number 468. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958).

Lc. Dushka 'Dallas' HCC/ODC 79.9 points, exhibited by Harry Z. Lawrence. ODC Award Number 469. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958).

February 10, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Miltonia J. M. Black. Hanlon' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Robert Hanlon. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter . Note: OSSC #522. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580038).

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Snow Queen' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Murray Spencer. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #523. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580041).

Cypripedium Forest Glade 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #524. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580045).

Blc. Margaret L. Vidulich HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by John Vidulich. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #525; missing from OSSC awards list, recovered from OSSC newsletter as Blc. Snowden (should be Snowdon) × Cattleya Estelle (now Estelle (1931)). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580039).

Cymbidium Alexette 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #526. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580043).

Vanda Mabelmae Kamahele 'Flowerland' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Mark L. Higgins. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #527. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580047).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Blue Mist' HCC/ODC 76.9 points, exhibited by Gordon Sawyer. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #528. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580048).

Paphiopedilum Western 'Magnificum' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Western 'Magnificum' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #529. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580046). The award photo was published in Orchid Digest 25(4):155, and in that issue the photo indicates the plant received HCC/ODC, even though the whole group of OSSC awards from February 10, 1958 had never been published in Orchid Digest, and was later omitted from the ODC Awards List!

Cypripedium Magda 'Prolific' CCM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchid Gardens. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #530. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580049, with cultivar name listed as 'Prolifica').

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Malibu' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #531. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580040).

Cattleya General patton 'Country Acres' HCC/ODC 78.58 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #532. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580042).

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Golden Gate' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Mrs. William Andrews. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #533. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580044).

February 17, 1958, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA :

Cymbidium Jungfrau 'Laverne Beavers' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Jungfrau 'Laverne Beavers' AM/ODC 82.5 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 302. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Odontioda Dolcoath 'Alight' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 303. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132, 135 (May, 1958).

Cymbidium Miranda 'Washington' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 304. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958).

February 18, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Cymbidium Marisa 'Gold Lake' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 294. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580060), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cymbidium Marisa 'Gold Lake' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Vanda Eisenhower 'Y. Kondo' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Eisenhower 'Y. Kondo' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Allen H. Kondo. ODC Award Number 295. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580059).

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Regal' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Regal' AM/ODC 84.3 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 296. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Orchid Digest show cultivar as 'Regal' in the text, but 'Royal' in the photo caption. OrchidWiz has a photo of the same flower, image #287606, with the image of the award ribbon obscured. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580060)

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Regal' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Lc. Snowdrift 'Doris' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Snowdrift 'Doris' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by T. Tomiyasu. ODC Award Number 297. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580057)

Lc. Rondel 'Marjorie' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Rondel 'Marjorie' AM/ODC 83.1 points, exhibited by Robert A. Gunther. ODC Award Number 298. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 and 132 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Orchid Digest shows grex as "Rondel" in the text, but "Randall" in the photo caption. OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo (mirror image), image #117916, attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Lc. Rondel 'Marjorie' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Vanda Jennie Hashimoto 'Lake Merritt' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by John K. Noa. ODC Award Number 299. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580062, but the cultivar is listed as 'Sailboat'), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Vanda Jennie Hashimoto 'Sailboat' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Vanda Onomea 'H. Kondo' HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Allen H. Kondo. ODC Award Number 300. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580063, but the cultivar is listed as 'Allen H. Kondo'), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Vanda Onomea 'Allen H. Kondo' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Miltonia Storm 'Thundercloud' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia Storm 'Thundercloud' AM/ODC 83.8 points, exhibited by C. F. Nave. ODC Award Number 301. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 and 132 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19580058), and the same black-and-white photo was published with the award in the AOS Bulletin.

February 24, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Dusty Rose' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 305. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #140.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Delicata' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 306. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #141.

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Embarcadero' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 307. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #143.

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Fanfare' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 308. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #144.

Lc. Grayce Hecker 'Jacobin' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Earl Monson. ODC Award Number 309. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #145.

Cattleya Los Gatos 'Angora' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 310. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #146.

Lc. Bonanza 'Crown Jewel' HCC/ODC, from Frank Fordyce archive, hybrid names A-C

Lc. Bonanza 'Crown Jewel' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 311. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #147. A photo of this plant, with the award and date, is in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 6, slide 12), marked Ⓢ, indicating it came from Stephenson. It could be a copy of the award slide. However, an even better candidate for a copy of the award photo is found elsewhere in the Fordyce archive in a group of slides for hybrid names A through C, again marked Ⓢ, listing the award, point score, and date, showing the appropriate color and form for such an award. In the same group of slides, there is a photo of another Bonanza cultivar 'Sun Acres', possibly a cut flower, the label including the information "HCC 76.0 2-24-58", but no such award is listed in the SCOS newsletter nor in the ODC Awards List. Instead, the correct award for 'Sun Acres' was from February, 1957, 77.0 points, see above.

Lc. Bonanza 'Crown Jewel' HCC/ODC, from Frank Fordyce archive "Binder 1"

Cattleya Los Gatos 'Sunny Hills' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 312. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #148.

Cattleya Ave Maria 'Hallelujah' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Toy's Orchids. ODC Award Number 313. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #149.

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Amber Green' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 314. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #142.

March 8, 1958, Monterey Bay Orchid Society Show, Watsonville, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Vanda Mabelmae Kamahele 'Monterey Bay' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Mabelmae Kamahele 'Monterey Bay' AM/ODC 83.2 points, exhibited by T. Ogawa. ODC Award Number 329. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Orchid Digest lists plant as Vanda Mabelmae Kamahele #2 'Monterey Bay'. A color version of the same award photo is in OrchidWiz, image #287613. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19580095), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Vanda Mabelmae Kamahele 'Monterey Bay' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Lc. Bonanza 'Cibola' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Cibala' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 330. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Orchid Digest and AOS records list cultivar as 'Cibola', which we think is probably correct At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580092). The same black-and-white photo was published in the AOS Bulletin.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Perfection' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Perfection' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 331. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580091). The same black-and-white photo was published in the AOS Bulletin.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Lady Rose' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Lady Rose' AM/ODC 80.4 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 332. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580090). The same black-and-white photo was published in the AOS Bulletin.

Lc. Coleman Berwick 'Pajaro' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Coleman Berwick 'Pajaro' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 333. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 and 134 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580094). The same black-and-white photo was published in the AOS Bulletin.

Lc. Bonanza 'Victorio' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Victorio' HCC/ODC 80 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 334. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133-134 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Orchid Digest lists cultivar as 'Victoria' in the text, but 'Victorio' in the photo caption. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580093). The same black-and-white photo was published in the AOS Bulletin.

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Alice' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Derruau. ODC Award Number 335. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580113), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Alice' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Cher Don' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Donald L. Kenney. ODC Award Number 336. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580114).

Cymbidium Chapala 'Leedja' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 337. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580099), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cymbidium Chapala 'Leedja' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Leedja Cleon 'El Sueno' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 338. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580103).

Cymbidium Leedja Cleon 'Betty' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 340. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580102).

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Nancy' HCC/ODC 76.9 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 341. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580109), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Nancy' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Odontoglossum Musette 'Big Girl' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 342. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580112), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Odontoglossum Musette 'Big Girl' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Sola 'Nellie' CCM/ODC 82.1 points, exhibited by Edwin Mir. ODC Award Number 343. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580096), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cymbidium Sola 'Nellie' CCM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Vanda Oscar M. Kirsch 'Monterey Bay' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by J. Milton Warne. ODC Award Number 344. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580116), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Vanda Oscar M. Kirsch 'Monterey Bay' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cypripedium Mill Valley 'Marylin Crompton' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Dr. Robert Crompton. ODC Award Number 345. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580110), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cypripedium Mill Valley 'Marylin Crompton' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Pastoral 'Horizon' HCC/ODC 78.9 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchids. ODC Award Number 346. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580105), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cymbidium Pastoral 'Horizon' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cattleya Los Gatos 'Sandoro' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Parks. ODC Award Number 347. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580098), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cattleya Los Gatos 'Sandoro' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Tangier' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 348. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580104).

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Sea Breeze' HCC/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 349. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580107).

Slc. Winneu 'Pajaro' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 350. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580115), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Slc. Winneu 'Pajaro' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Souvenir de Bonita 'Kittiwake' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 351. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580111).

Cattleya Enid alba 'Applause' HCC/ODC, from the Frank Fordyce archive

Cattleya Enid alba 'Applause' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 352. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580097). The award slide, or a copy of it, marked Ⓢ, indicating it came from Stephenson, is in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 1, slide 7), including the award designation, point scoer, date, and venue. In spite of the old, traditional designation "alba", the flowers are white with a colored lip, and there are other named and awarded cultivars of "Enid alba" showing the same colored lip.

Cymbidium Swallow 'The Orb' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Sherman Orchids. ODC Award Number 353. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580108), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cymbidium Swallow 'The Orb' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Rosarita 'Goleta' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 339. Published in ODC Awards List, not yet located in Orchid Digest and not published with the other awards for this show, but apparently belonging here based on the ODC award number, and the date of March, 1958, as well as an HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580106) from AOS records, including a color photo in OrchidPro.

Cymbidium Rosarita 'Goleta' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

[AOS records include two more awards for this show that are not found in the ODC records: Cymbidium Claud Read 'Monterey Bay' HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580100, with color photo in OrchidPro), exhibited by Herb Hager Orchids, Santa Cruz, CA; and Cymbidium Featherhill 'Rose Queen' HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580101).]

Cymbidium Claud Read 'Monterey Bay' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

March 10, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Rose Brocade' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 398. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):135 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #538; the ODC Awards List shows award number as 358, apparently an error for 398, even though there are some duplications of ODC award numbers in this group. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580127).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Perfection' AM/ODC 82.4 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 399. Published in Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #543. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580124).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Lady Rose' AM/ODC 82.1 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 400. Published in Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #540. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580123).

Cattleya Rita Renee 'Matriarch' AM/ODC 80.6 points, exhibited by Roy M. Field. ODC Award Number 401. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):134 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #541. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580122), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cattleya Rita Renee 'Matriarch' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Phalaenopsis Shocking Pink 'Rose Mary' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Mrs. Robert Hanlon. ODC Award Number 402. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):135 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #535. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580130).

Cymbidium Swallow 'Lorraine' HCC/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by Max Sikerski. ODC Award Number 403. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):135 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #536. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580129).

Cymbidium Marisa 'Snow Belle' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Marvin Summerfield. ODC Award Number 404. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):135 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #534. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580128).

Cymbidium Edna Cobb 'China Maid' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Max Sikerski. ODC Award Number 405. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):135 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #537. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580126).

Cymbidium Charm 'Cendre de Rose' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Norris Powell. ODC Award Number 406. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):135 (May, 1958). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #542. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580125).

Cymbidium Hawtescens 'FCC/RHS' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by S. Elliot Rogers. ODC Award Number 407. Published in OD, 23(6):268 (November, 1959). Note: OSSC newsletter April, 1958, award #539. There is no corresponding AOS award for this plant at this judging session, presumably because the plant had already received an earlier AM/AOS in 1957, see above, March 9, 1957, Monterey Bay Orchid Society Annual Show, Watsonville, CA.

March 14, 1958, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA (normal date should have been March 17, 1958; the Society held its annual show over the preceding weekend, as reported in AOS Bulletin 27(9):617 (September, 1958)): [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Cymbidium Samarkand 'Jorja Kiyonaga' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 408. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580135).

Dendrobium Thomas Warne 'Virginia Tidwell' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 409. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580139).

Phalaenopsis Alphaschillana 'Volunteer Park' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Alphaschillana 'Volunteer Park' CCM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 410. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 and 135 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580142).

Cymbidium Claud Read 'Vashon' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Claude Read 'Vashon' AM/ODC 80.4 points, exhibited by Beall Greenhouse Company. ODC Award Number 411. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 and 135 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. The correct grex name is Claud Read. There is a bizarre color version of the award photo in OrchidWiz, image #287627, the color faded to a deep red-orange, but it shows more of the flower spike. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580132), and OrchidPro has the same bizarre color photo.

Cymbidium Claud Read 'Vashon' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cymbidium Pixie Moor 'Green Gorge' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Beall Greenhouse Company. ODC Award Number 412. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580134), and OrchidPro has a color photo, with the same bizarre red-orange colors.

Cymbidium Pixie Moor 'Green Gorge' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Odontioda Florence Stirling 'Explorer' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 413. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580141).

Cymbidium Pixie Moor 'Cedar Cove' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Beall Greenhouse Company. ODC Award Number 414. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580133).

Cymbidium Bernice Farrell 'Green River' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 415. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580136).

Blc. Nacouchee 'Pink Cloud' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Nacouchee 'Pink Cloud' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 417. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133-134 (May, 1958) with black-and-white photo. A color version of the award photo is in OrchidWiz, image #287626. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19580131), and the same color photo is in OrchidPro.

Blc. Nacouchee 'Pink Cloud' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cypripedium Bonita 'Jacqueline Smith' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 418. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580137).

Cypripedium Felbridge 'Troubadour' HCC/ODC 78.7 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 419. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):133 (May, 1958). Note: Orchid Digest shows grex name as "Falbridge", which is incorrect. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580138).

Lc. Agni 'Rossette' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 416. Published in ODC Awards List. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580140).

March 18, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cymbidium Rosario 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 354. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580145), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cymbidium Rosario 'Vallemar' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Bonanza 'Aztec Lode' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 355. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580146).

Blc. Morning Sun 'Carol' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by John R. Carbone Jr. ODC Award Number 356. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580143), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Blc. Morning Sun 'Carol' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cattleya Affection 'Rapture' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Virgil S. Ford. ODC Award Number 357. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):131 (May, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580144), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Cattleya Affection 'Rapture' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

March 24, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA (Orchid Digest reports date as March 25, 1958):

Lc. Bonanza 'Klondike' AM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 423. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #150.

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Olympus' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 424. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #151.

Cymbidium Princess Elizabeth 'Novia' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 425. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #155.

Cypripedium Seascape 'Shaw's Garden' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by H. A. Hecht. ODC Award Number 426. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #153.

Cymbidium Bodmin Moor 'Victoria' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 427. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(3):132 (May, 1958). Note: SCOS #154.

April 14, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cymbidium California 'Eureka' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 428. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 (July, 1958). Note: OSSC #544. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580167).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Mona Lisa' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Mona Lisa' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 429. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 and 178 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #545. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580166).

Slc. Dahak 'Firefly' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 430. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 (July, 1958). Note: OSSC #546; OSSC newsletter identifies the plant as Slc. Anzac x (C. Clotho x Lc. Memling) (the second parent resolves to Lc. Clomen, and Anzac × Clomen became Slc. Dahak, now correctly Cattleya Dahak (1958)). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS, points not reported (AOS Award Number 19580170). The OSSC newsletter reports HCC/AOS 76.7 points.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Caprice' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 431. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 (July, 1958). Note: OSSC #547. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580169).

Cymbidium Edna Cobb 'Chiffon' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 432. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 (July, 1958). Note: OSSC #548. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS, points not reported (AOS Award Number 19580168).

April 15, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Phalaenopsis Juanita 'Fascination' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Frank Hughes. ODC Award Number 420. Published in Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580172).

Cattleya White Eagle 'Dee Zee' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Melvin H. Dittmer. ODC Award Number 421. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580171).

April 17, 1958, 6th Western Orchid Congress, Palo Alto, CA:

Dendrobium Gatton Monarch 'Rickey's' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Dendrobium Gatton Monarch 'Rickey's' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Mrs. C. P. Dunn. ODC Award Number 360. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Miltonia Jean Kirby Proctor 'Rickey's' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 361. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958). Note: Published without grex name.

Blc. Soledad 'Hayward ' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 362. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Ruby' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Johnny Noa. ODC Award Number 363. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Cymbidium Sea Foam 'Green Valley' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 364. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Phalaenopsis Alice Bowen 'Deana' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by Mrs. Lester McCoy. ODC Award Number 365. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Lc. Telegraph Hill 'Betty Mae' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 366. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Cymbidium Balkis 'Ierath' HCC/ODC 79.2 points, exhibited by Hugh Smith. ODC Award Number 367. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 (July, 1958). Note: Published as cultivar 'Luath'.

Vanda Kona 'Iridescent' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Orchids Hawaiiana. ODC Award Number 368. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958). Note: Published as cultivar 'Irridescent'.

Cymbidium Arabian Nights 'Abadana' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 369. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958). Note: Published as cultivar 'Abadan'.

Cymbidium Bengal Bay 'Benares' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 370. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958). Note: Published as cultivar 'Benari'.

Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Sixty' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 371. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Cattleya guatemalensis 'La Libertad' CCM/ODC 90 points, exhibited by Arthur Pedersen. ODC Award Number 372. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175, frontispiece (July, 1958). Note: Article in Orchid Digest 22(4):169 notes this is a natural hybrid.

Odontoglossum Gavotte 'Whitey' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Gavotte 'Whitey' AM/ODC 80.1 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 373. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 and 178 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Published in Orchid Digest as cultivar 'Ward H', and the award photo as 'Ward Hickson'.

Aeridovanda Blue Spur 'Carleen' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Henry Kawamoto. ODC Award Number 374. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Lc. Walter Winchell 'Olympus' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 375. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Vanda sanderiana 'Lillian' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Severin. ODC Award Number 376. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Potinara Gordon Siu 'Potentate' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Potinara Gordon Siu 'Potentate' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 377. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Cymbidium Anthony Evans 'Gloria' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Santa Barbara Orchid Estate. ODC Award Number 378. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Cymbidium Arabian Nights 'Goleta' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Cobb's Orchids. ODC Award Number 379. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Phalaenopsis Juanita 'Fascination' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Juanita 'Fascination' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by J. Frank Hughes. ODC Award Number 380. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 and 176 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Miltonia Liberté 'Esther Gubler' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia Liberté 'Esther Gubler' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Hans Gubler. ODC Award Number 381. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 (July, 1958) and a black-and-white photo on the cover of that issue. Note: Published as grex Liberty (Mocadem x Picadilly), but Liberté with the correct acute accent in the table of contents.

Phalaenopsis Juanita 'Palo Alto' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Juanita 'Palo Alto' HCC/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 382. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 and 176 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Blc. Nacouchee 'Royalty' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 383. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):176 (July, 1958).

Lc. Atlantis 'Palo Alto' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Atlantis 'Palo Alto' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 384. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Bou Philippo 'Rainier' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bou Philippo 'Rainier' AM/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by Benjamin L. Bird. ODC Award Number 385. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Tom' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Tom' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Orchids Hawaiiana. ODC Award Number 386. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):175 and 177 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Published with exhibitor Clifton Tom of Hilo, HI, later corrected in Orchid Digest 22(5):229 (September, 1958).

April 28, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Cattleya Ave Maria 'Her Grace' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Murray Spencer. ODC Award Number 396. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):178 (July, 1958). Note: SCOS #156.

Cattleya Snoball 'Georgia' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Robert Cameron. ODC Award Number 397. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):178 (July, 1958). Note: SCOS #157; Orchid Digest lists grex as Snowball (Bob Betts x Claris).

Cattleya Affection 'Joi' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by A. W. Zimmerman. ODC Award Number 398. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):178 (July, 1958). Note: SCOS #158.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Rose Rapture' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 399. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):178 (July, 1958). Note: SCOS #159.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Rose Radiance' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 433. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):178 (July, 1958). Note: SCOS #160.

May 12, 1858, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Maxine' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Maxine' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by E. A. Pennington. ODC Award Number 391. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177, 178 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #549. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580185).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Cameo' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 392. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):178 (July, 1958). Note: OSSC #550. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580187).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Herbrita' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crothers. ODC Award Number 393. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):178 (July, 1958). Note: OSSC #551. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580186).

Cattleya White Blossom 'Quaker Lass' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya White Blossom 'Quaker Lass' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Grace Krebs. ODC Award Number 394. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #552; OSSC records as well as AOS award records show the cultivar as 'Quaker Lass', not 'Quaker Lace' as published in some other sources. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580184). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287634.

Cattleya White Blossom 'Quaker Lass' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Blue Moon' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Blue Moon' AM/ODC 85.6 points, exhibited by Mark L. Higgins. ODC Award Number 395. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 and 178 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #553. The OSSC newsletter reports AM/AOS 85.56 points at this session, but the award is not in AOS records, presumably because the same cultivar had already received an AM/AOS in 1957.

May 20, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Euplophia petersii (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Euplophia peetersii (no cultivar listed) AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by C. E. Wilson. ODC Award Number 387. Published in Orchid Digest 22(4):176 and 177 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Eulophia was omitted entirely from the ODC Awards List! The species name is correctly petersii, not to be confused with Euplophia peetersiana, named, apparently after different Peters or Peeters. At the same event, this plant received CBM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19580192).

Cypripedium Santa Margarita 'Colma' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 388. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 (July, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580191).

Lc. Ann Follis 'Green Sleeves' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Ann Follis 'Green Sleeves' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 389. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580190).

Brassia gireoudiana 'Mission Challenge' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Brassia gireoudiana 'Mission Challenge' CCM/ODC 86 points, exhibited by Ray and Ruby Alberts. ODC Award Number 390. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(4):177 and 178 (July, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: Award photo published with cultivar name 'Mission Valley'. A far superior version of the award photo, in color, is in OrchidWiz, image #287635. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 86 points (AOS Award Number 19580193), with the same color photo in OrchidPro.

Brassia gireoudiana 'Mission Challenge' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz, adjusted for exposure balance

May 26, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. Triduk 'El Gordo' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 448. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958). Note: SCOS #161.

Cattleya White Blossom 'Caro Mia' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Grace Krebs. ODC Award Number 449. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 (September, 1958). Note: SCOS #162.

Lc. Locarno 'Hollywood' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Locarno 'Hollywood' CCM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. ODC Award Number 450. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958) and with a black-and-white photo on the frontispiece of this issue. Note: SCOS #163.

June 9, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Blc. Edwin Chong 'Orient' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Edwin Chong 'Orient' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Morris Holmquist. ODC Award Number 442. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 (September, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #559. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580197).

Lc. Eugene Casey 'Jan Ellen' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Eugene Casey 'Jan Ellen' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Mrs. Maria D. Ozzella. ODC Award Number 443. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 (September, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #554. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580198).

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Questover' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Nell Howard. ODC Award Number 444. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 (September, 1958). Note: OSSC #555. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580201).

Phalaenopsis Leah 'Julie' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Harry Z. Laurence. ODC Award Number 445. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 (September, 1958). Note: OSSC #558. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580200).

Vanda Maurice Restrepo 'White Ruffles' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Maurice Restrepo 'White Ruffles' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Mark L. Higgins. ODC Award Number 446. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 (September, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #557. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580196).

Lc. Peggy Huffman 'Carrousel' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Mrs. Everett Harris. ODC Award Number 447. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 (September, 1958). Note: OSSC #556. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580199). What is clearly the award photo, noting both the award and the exhibitor, is found in OrchidWiz, image #56382, attributed to Steve McNerney.

Cattleya Peggy Huffman 'Carousel' HCC/AOS, from OrchidWiz

June 17, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Vanda sanderiana 'Orchid Hill' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Wylma Lawton. ODC Award Number 440. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580212).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Edna Edwards' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Mrs. Charles E. Edwards. ODC Award Number 441. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580210).

[At the same event, AOS records show an additional award, Lc. Medill Patterson 'Eileen' HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580211, with grex name corrected to Joseph Medill Patterson).]

June 23, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Platyclinis filiformis 'Patricia' CBM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Norris Powell. ODC Award Number 474. Published in ODC Awards List, SCOS newsletter. Note: ODC Awards List shows date as July, 1958, but this item is also in the SCOS newsletter with the date of June 23, 1958, #168; also, this plant received CBM/AOS at OSSC judging July 14, 1958; apparently belongs in both places; perhaps ODC has not yet recognized the CBM award category?.

Cattleya Marmarie 'Surprise' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Marmarie 'Surprise' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Farrington Chase. ODC Award Number 475. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 and 274 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #164.

Lc. Eugene Casey 'Questover' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 476. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):272 (November, 1958, but wrongly attributed to OSC. Note: SCOS #165.

Phalaenopsis Clara I. Knight 'Malibu' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 477. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958, but wrongly attributed to OSC. Note: SCOS #166.

Phalaenopsis Arcadia 'Regal' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Arcadia 'Regal' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Fred L. Browne. ODC Award Number 478. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 and 274 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo, but wrongly attributed in the November issue to OSC. Note: SCOS #167. ODC Awards List shows ODC award number as 578, but it clearly should be 478. The award was published in Orchid Digest both as SCOS June 23 (#167) and as OSC September 16! The award belongs here!

Rhynchostylis retusa CBM/ODC, exhibited by Norris Powell. ODC Award Number 479. Published in SCOS newsletter. Note: SCOS #169; the award is published in the SCOS newsletter in the same format at that for SCOS #168, which is ODC award #474.

July 14, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA (OSSC newsletter specifies this was "Southern California Regional A.O.S. Judging and Orchid Digest Judging"): [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Marian Andrews 'Glorious' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. William H. Andrews. ODC Award Number 455. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):229 (September, 1958). Note: OSSC #560. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580234).

Cattleya dowiana aurea 'King Midas' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Roy M. Field. ODC Award Number 456. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):229 (September, 1958). Note: OSSC #561. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580233). The award photo, noting both the award and the exhibitor, was published and article about yellow Cattleyas by Ernest Hetherington in AOS Bulletin 54(2):149 (February, 1985). The same photo, "from a photograph of AOS judging", was featured on the front cover of Orchid Digest 56(4) (October, 1992), with much more realistic color.

Cattleya dowiana aurea 'King Midas' HCC/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cattleya dowiana aurea 'King Midas' HCC/AOS, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Kuhio 'Peacock' HCC/ODC 76.9 points, exhibited by Mrs. Everett Harris. ODC Award Number 457. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):229 (September, 1958). Note: OSSC #562; Orchid Digest lists grex as V. Tatzeri x Ononea (should be Onomea!). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580235).

Vanda roeblingiana 'Dearmach' CBM/ODC 83.8 points, exhibited by John C. Yates. ODC Award Number 458. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 (September, 1958). Note: OSSC #563. At the same event, this plant received CBM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19580237), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Vanda roeblingiana 'Dearmach' CBM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Platyclinis filiformis 'Patricia' CBM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Norris Powell. ODC Award Number 459. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #564; ODC Awards List shows date as July, 1958, but this item is in the SCOS newsletter with the date of June 23, 1958; also, this plant received CBM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580236) at OSSC judging July 14, 1958; apparently this plant belongs in both places.

July 15, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Renantanda Violet 'Flourescent' HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Ben Kodama. ODC Award Number 451. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580240).

Lc. Earl J. Small 'Model' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Virgil S. Ford. ODC Award Number 452. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580238).

Vanda Waipuna 'Kodama' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Waipuna 'Kodama' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by Ben Kodama. ODC Award Number 453. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 and 228 (September, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

Odontoglossum Berwick 'Aneline Voyez' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Berwick 'Aneline Voyez' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Derruau. ODC Award Number 454. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):227 (September, 1958) with black-and-white photo on the cover of this issue. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580239, as cultivar 'Aveline Voyez', which we think is more likely correct).

July 21, 1958, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Cattleya Birnamwood 'Olympus' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Birnamwood 'Olympus' AM/ODC 82.9 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 460. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 and 229 (September, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

July 28, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. Eugene Casey 'Cinnamon Stick' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Everett L. Harris. ODC Award Number 479. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: SCOS #170.

Cattleya Mary Langford 'Serene' HCC/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 480. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: SCOS #171; SCOS shows this award July, not June 1958, changed date from ODC Awards List accordingly.

Lc. Halloween 'Tangee' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crothers. ODC Award Number 481. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: SCOS #172.

Blc. Camilla 'Golden Dawn' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Wilfred Jeal. ODC Award Number 482. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: SCOS #176.

Blc. Painted Desert 'Sunset' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Painted Desert 'Sunset' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 483. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 and 274 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #173.

Vanda Rothschildiana 'La Habra' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Rothschildiana 'La Habra' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Mary Agnes Chase. ODC Award Number 484. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 and 274 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #174.

Lc. Nell Howard 'Questover' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 485. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: SCOS #175.

August 11, 1958, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Cycnoches egertonianum 'Sylvia' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cycnoches egertonianum 'Sylvia' CCM/ODC 84 points, exhibited by H. Schoenfeld. ODC Award Number 463. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(5):228 and 229 (September, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

August 11, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Ruby' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by A. C. Zimmerman. ODC Award Number 464. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #565. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580248, but OrchidPro shows the date incorrectly as August 8), and OrchidPro has a color photo.

Rlc. Norman's Bay 'Ruby' AM/AOS, from OrchidWiz

Lc. Helen Asder 'Linda' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by John K. Asder. ODC Award Number 465. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #566. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580250, but OrchidPro shows the date incorrectly as August 8).

Blc. Golden Feather 'Golden Orbit' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 466. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #567. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580249, but OrchidPro shows the date incorrectly as August 8).

Lc. Natchi 'Sun Acres' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 467. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #568. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580251, but OrchidPro shows the date incorrectly as August 8).

August 19, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Vanda sanderiana 'My Aloha' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by [Mrs.] Charles E. Edwards. ODC Award Number 461. Published in ODC Awards List, not yet located in Orchid Digest, but the venue and exact date are identified in AOS records: HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580253).

Lc. Memoria Walter Armacost 'Anna' HCC/ODC, from Frank Fordyce archive

Lc. Memoria Walter Armacost 'Anna' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 462. Published in ODC Awards List, not yet located in Orchid Digest, but the venue and exact date are identified in AOS records: HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580252). The award slide, or a copy of it, is found in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 1, sheet 3, slide 14), marked Ⓢ, indicating it came from Stephenson, with the award ("HCC AOS ODC"), point score, date, and venue. The photo shows that this was a cut flower.

August 25, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. Lena Baldwin 'Rouge' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Ilsley. ODC Award Number 486. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):274 (November, 1958).

Bc. Miranda 'Chartreuse Queen' AM/ODC 81.5 points, exhibited by Katy and Earl Monson. ODC Award Number 487. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):274 (November, 1958).

Lc. Ravenswood 'Aridine' FCC/ODC 90.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 488. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):274 (November, 1958).

September 8, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA (but OSSC newsletter gives the date as September 7, 1958, in error): [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Amber Glow 'Cob' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Walter S. Johnston. ODC Award Number 489. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: OSSC #572. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580261).

Cattleya New Albion 'Monterey' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by John Hanes. ODC Award Number 490. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: OSSC #573. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580260).

Lc. Fred Castator 'Allegre' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 491. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: OSSC #574. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580262).

Lc. Ruby-Etta 'Jack Pot' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Ruby-Etta 'Jack Pot' CCM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Toy's Orchids. ODC Award Number 492. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 and 274 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #575; photo caption shows grex as Roby-Etta. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580264).

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Santa Barbara Orchid Estate. ODC Award Number 493. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: OSSC #569. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580258).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Santa Barbara Orchid Estate. ODC Award Number 494. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: OSSC #570. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580259).

Lc. Fred Castator 'Caballero' HCC/ODC 78.9 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 495. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):273 (November, 1958). Note: OSSC #571. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580263).

September 16, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Bonanza 'Wells Fargo' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Wells Fargo' AM/ODC 82.7 points, exhibited by George Cutler. ODC Award Number 470. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):272 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19580269).

Cypripedium Wendover 'Beauty' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 471. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):272 (November, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580270).

Cattleya Pele 'Haleakala' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Pele 'Haleakala' AM/ODC 82.3 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 472. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):272 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580268).

Cattleya Nigritian 'King of Kings' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Nigritian 'King of Kings' AM/ODC 81.5 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 473. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):272 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580267).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Kunia' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Hajime Ono. ODC Award Number 474. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):272 (November, 1958). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580271).

[Three awards were wrongly attributed to OSC in Orchid Digest 22(6):272 (November, 1958). They are actually from SCOS, June 23, 1958, see above. The awards are: Phalaenopsis Clara I. Knight 'Malibu' HCC/ODC 78 points; Lc. Eugene Casey 'Questover' HCC/ODC 77.7 points; and Phalaenopsis Arcadia 'Regal' AM/ODC 80.3 points.]

September 19, 1958, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Cattleya Tethys 'Martha Gorny' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Tethys 'Martha Gorny' CCM/ODC 86.5 points, exhibited by S. N. Gorny. ODC Award Number 496. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 22(6):274 (November, 1958) with black-and-white photo.

September 22, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. R. J. Chrisman 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 525. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: SCOS #180.

Blc. Sam Anderson 'Shelley' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by A. M. Thompson. ODC Award Number 526. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). Note: SCOS #181.

Lc. Bonanza 'Bold Eyes' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Cleda Lincoln. ODC Award Number 527. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: SCOS #182.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Cameron' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Cobb's Orchids. ODC Award Number 528. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). Note: SCOS #183.

Lc. Muchacha Nina 'Fandango' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 529. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). Note: SCOS #184.

Cattleya Portia 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 530. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: SCOS #185.

Cattleya bicolor punctatissima CBM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by John W. Hanes. ODC Award Number 531. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). Note: SCOS #186.

Cattleya New Albion 'Bold Adventure' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 532. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: SCOS #187.

October 11, 1958, Oregon Orchid Society, Portland, OR:

Cattleya Hummingbird 'Delight' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Hummingbird 'Delight' AM/ODC 80.1 points, exhibited by Chase Gardens. ODC Award Number 520. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):22 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287650. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580291).

Cattleya Hummingbird 'Delight' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Stanhopea wardii 'Ruth' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Stanhopea wardii 'Ruth' CCM/ODC 86.3 points, exhibited by R. G. Philpott. ODC Award Number 521. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):22 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 86 points (AOS Award Number 19580292).

Stanhopea wardii 'Ruth' CCM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Stanhopea wardii 'Ruth' CCM/ODC, from OrchidPro

[Orchid Digest 23(1):22 (January, 1959) lists three more awards here, but then the same awards are published in Orchid Digest 23(2):61 (March, 1959) for Orchid Society of California, November 18, 1958. As it happens, the same three awards are among those that received AOS awards at OSC judging on November 18, 1958 as well, so they properly belong there, see below. The awards affected are Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. schroederianum 'Cherie' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Keeney; Lc. Rondel 'Gunther's Variety' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by R. A. Gunther; and Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Sandoro' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Sandy Parks.]

October 13, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Quadroon 'Hollywood' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. ODC Award Number 509. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: OSSC #576. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580301).

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Frances' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by E. N. Judson. ODC Award Number 510. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: OSSC #577. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580296). OrchidWiz has the apparent award photo, grower indicated as E. N. Judson, image #55443, attributed to Steve McNerney.

Rlc. Norman's Bay 'Frances' HCC/AOS, from OrchidWiz

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Country Acres' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Country Acres' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 511. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 and 22 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580293). Note: OSSC #578. OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #55692, attributed to Steve McNerney.

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Country Acres' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Portia 'Gloriosa' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest 23(1):22

Cattleya Portia 'Gloriosa' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Dr. Lee Lenz. ODC Award Number 512. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 and 22 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #579. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580294). A color version of the award photo was published in the September, 1981 issue of Orchid Digest (45(5):197).

Cattlianthe Portia 'Gloriosa' AM/AOS, from Orchid Digest 45(5):197

Cattleya Texas Ranger 'Country Acres' HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 513. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: OSSC #580. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580298).

Lc. Bonanza 'Yukon' HCC/ODC 79.4 points, exhibited by Harry Rapella. ODC Award Number 514. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: OSSC #581. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580300).

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Zuma' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 515. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: OSSC #582. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580297).

Cypripedium Susan Tucker 'Questover' HCC/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 516. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: OSSC #583. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580299).

Vanda sanderiana 'Lady Marian' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda sanderiana 'Lady Marian' AM/ODC 80.1 points, exhibited by Kasuma Nishimura. ODC Award Number 517. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 and 22 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. Note: OSSC #584.

Vanda sanderiana 'Charlene' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery. ODC Award Number 518. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: OSSC #585. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580303).

Vanda Onomea 'Amethyst' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Arvida Greenhouses. ODC Award Number 519. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):21 (January, 1959). Note: OSSC #586. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580302).

October 21, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Oliver Lines 'Oakland' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 497. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580316).

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Keo Keo' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 498. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580313).

Odontoglossum grande 'Alaska' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum grande 'Alaska' CCM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Mrs. R. A. Williams. ODC Award Number 499. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo on frontispiece of that issue. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580321).

Cattleya Pele 'Kilauea' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Pele 'Kilauea' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 500. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 and 21 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580311). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287653.

Cattleya Pele 'Kilauea' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Ornithocephalus inflexus 'Mission Estrellita' CBM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Ornithocephalus inflexus 'Mission Estrellita' CBM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Ray and Ruby Warne. ODC Award Number 501. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 and 21 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received CBM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580320).

Blc. Jane Helton 'Glow' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Jane Helton 'Glow' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Ellis R. White. ODC Award Number 502. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 and 22 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19580310). OrchidWiz has a color version (mirror image) of the award photo, image #117615, attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Blc. Jane Helton 'Glow' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cypripedium Grace Darling 'Beverly' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Wilson's Orchids. ODC Award Number 503. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580315, with cultivar name 'Beverley').

Phalaenopsis Alice Bowen 'Midnight' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Alice Bowen 'Midnight' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 504. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 and 21 (January, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580312).

Phalaenopsis Clara I. Knight 'The Bride' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 505. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580317).

Vanda Jennie Hashimoto 'Catherine' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Harry Fraser. ODC Award Number 506. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580319).

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Wilma' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by J. Frank Hughes. ODC Award Number 507. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580314).

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'K' HCC/ODC 79.2 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 508. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):20 (January, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580318).

October 27, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Blc. Nacouchee 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 562. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #188.

Cattleya Iris 'Herbrita' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crothers. ODC Award Number 563. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #189.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Bianca' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Howard A. Anderson. ODC Award Number 564. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #190.

Lc. Tiberta 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 565. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #191.

Cattleya Portia 'Addie' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 566. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #192.

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Evangeline' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 567. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #193.

Dendrobium phalaenopsis 'Mauna Kea' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crothers. ODC Award Number 568. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #194; Orchid Digest lists the plant as Den. Phalaenopsis (Mauna Kea) 'Snow Storm'.

Lc. Bagatelle 'Questover' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 569. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #195; ODC Awards List has date as October, 1959, but award belongs in 1958 as published in SCOS and OD.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Ormes Variety' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Howard A. Anderson. ODC Award Number 570. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #196.

October 31, 1958, Greater North Texas Orchid Society, Dallas, TX: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. John Lines 'Old Smoky' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Lines Orchids. ODC Award Number 752. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):271 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580329).

Cattleya Portia 'Amethyst' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 753. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):271 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580328).

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Dorothy' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. John G. Martin. ODC Award Number 754. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):271 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580327).

Lc. Sacramento 'Goldie Wheeler' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 755. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):271 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580330).

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Tulsa' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Cecil Stanfield. ODC Award Number 756. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):271 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580326).

Lc. Elizabeth Off 'Sparkling Burgundy' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Lines Orchids. ODC Award Number 757. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):271 (November, 1959).

November 10, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

[This group of awards was apparently never published in Orchid Digest.]

Bc. Déesse 'Perfection' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Vacherot et Lecoufle. ODC Award Number 533. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #597. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580332).

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Wendy' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wilson. ODC Award Number 534. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #596. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580340, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Papilionanda Nellie Morley 'Wendy' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Dendrobium phalaenopsis 'Laura Sladden' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by D. N. McConnel. ODC Award Number 535. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #595. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580335).

Lc. Snowdrift 'Penn Valley' AM/ODC 84.8 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 536. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #589. While no photo was published for this award, the OSSC newsletter gives a detailed description: it was a fine semi-alba with a touch of color on the tips of the petals. However, what appears to be intended as an official copy of the award slide is found in the Fordyce archive in a group of slides for hybrids A-C, with contradictory labeling and an image that in no way resembles Snowdrift.

The slide shows an impressed processing code DEC58, slide number 5 stamped in red. On the front of the slide, starting at the top, "651 Lc. Snowdrift 'Penn Valley' 589 / Lc. Elissa × Lc. Trempealeau / Lc. Cynthia 'Model' × C. Annette alba / 84.4 AM/ODC (AM/AOS 10/57) / Arthur Freed". Also stamped on the front of the slide, "So. Cal. Regional AOS Judging", and in heavy marking pen at the bottom, over the stamped venue name, "536", and finally, in the lower right corner in pen, "11/58". On the back of the slide, " 'Snowdrift ' / 651 / 11-58".

The correct parentage for Lc. Snowdrift is in fact the one that is not lined out on the slide, Lc. Cynthia × Cattleya Annette. The other parentage, the one that is lined out, is that of Lc. San Francisco, a cultivar of which, 'Purple Star', exhibited by the Westenbergers, was awarded at the same judging session, see below, OSSC award 590. Except for the number 651, which remains unexplained, the labeling suggests that someone was attempting to label an award slide for Lc. Snowdrift, OSSC #589, but inadvertently began writing the parentage for OSSC #590, and then tried to correct the error.

However, the slide (see image below) shows a Potinara or a similar Sophronitis hybrid whose shape strongly suggests a hybrid of S. coccinea. However, no similar hybrid that would have been available in 1958 has been discovered; it has the wrong shape and coloration for the popular hybrids of this type that had been registered at that time, such as (using current nomenclature) Cattleya Cleopatra (1898), Cattleya Gratrixiae (1901), Cattleya Orpetii, Cattleya Psyche (1902), Cattleya Doris (1904), Cattleya Falcon (1917), Lc. Camargo, or Cattleya Sunburst (1936). The date is also earlier than any of Frank Fordyce's many hybrids of this type. No explanation has been found for how this piece of color film came to be enclosed in this slide mount that was processed by Kodak in December, 1958, and which appears to be intact. There are no similar hybrids in the OSSC newsletters for this period.

Anomalous, unidentified image in a slide from the Fordyce archive that purports to be the award slide for Lc. Snowdrift 'Penn Valley'. Whatever it is, it is not Lc. Snowdrift.

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Lynda' AM/ODC 81.6 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 537. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #588.

Odontioda Ithaque 'Vendôme' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Vacherot et Lecoufle. ODC Award Number 538. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #598. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580338, and OrchidPro has color photo).

Cattleya Puritan Princess 'White Gold' AM/ODC 82.3 points, exhibited by Westenberger Orchid Co. ODC Award Number 539. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #591. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580331).

Cattleya Puritan Princess 'White Gold' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. San Francisco 'Purple Star' HCC/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by Dr. L. H. Westenberger. ODC Award Number 540. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #590. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580336).

Lc. Vandelleta 'Del Rey' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Santa Barbara Orchid Estate. ODC Award Number 541. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #587. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580336).

Cattleya Hanniwell 'Snow White' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by Howard A. Anderson. ODC Award Number 542. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #592. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580334).

Phalaenopsis Clara I. Knight 'Alice' HCC/ODC, from the Frank Fordyce archive

Phalaenopsis Clara I. Knight 'Alice' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by E. W. Miller. ODC Award Number 543. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #593. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580339). The award slide, stamped "SO. CALIF. REGIONAL JUDGING", including the award designation, point score, and exhibitor, is found in the Frank Fordyce archive (Binder 3, sheet 3, slide 18).

Cattleya Ariel coerulea 'Bluebird' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Gubler Orchids. ODC Award Number 544. Published in ODC Awards List, OSSC newsletter. Note: OSSC #594. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580333).

November 18, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Dendrobium phalaenopsis var. schroederianum 'Cherie' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Keeney. ODC Award Number 522. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):22 (January, 1959) in erorr, then again Orchid Digest 23(2):61 (March, 1959) with correct data. Note: Cultivar published in Orchid Digest as 'Cherie', ODC Awards List shows date November instead of October. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580348).

Lc. Rondel 'Gunther's Variety' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by R. A. Gunther. ODC Award Number 523. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):22 (January, 1959) in erorr, then again Orchid Digest 23(2):61 (March, 1959) with correct data. Note: ODC Awards List shows date November instead of October. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580349).

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Sandoro' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Sandy Parks. ODC Award Number 524. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(1):22 (January, 1959) in erorr, then again Orchid Digest 23(2):61 (March, 1959) with correct data. Note: ODC Awards List shows date November instead of October. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19580350).

[AOS records include three additional awards for this event that are not found in ODC records: Vanda Jennie Hashimoto 'Gail' AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580346, with color photo in OrchidPro), exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery, Hilo, HI; Vanda Mabelmae Kamahele 'Fair King' AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580347), exhibited by T. Ogawa Orchids, Hilo, HI; and Vanda Ellen Noa 'Joy' HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19580351), exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery, Hilo, HI.]

November 24, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Arthur Falk' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Arthur Falk' HCC/ODC 79.4 points, exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery. ODC Award Number 581. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #197, and the SCOS newsletter shows the cultivar as 'Arthur E. Falk'.

December 2, 1958, San Francisco Orchid Society, San Francisco, CA:

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Louise' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Derruau. ODC Award Number 545. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):64 (March, 1959).

Phalaenopsis Leah 'Pink Amazon' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Leah 'Pink Amazon' CCM/ODC 83.7 points, exhibited by J. Frank Hughes. ODC Award Number 546. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 and 64 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Autumn Symphony 'Copper King' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Autumn Symphony 'Copper King' CCM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by J. Frank Hughes. ODC Award Number 547. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):64 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. White Opal 'Marin' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. White Opal 'Marin' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by George Cutler. ODC Award Number 548. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 and 64 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

Blc. Heron's Ghyll 'Thanksgiving' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Ralph E. Hoyt. ODC Award Number 549. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):64 (March, 1959). Note: Orchid Digest shows grex as Heron's Ghyll.

Lc. Twin Peaks 'Red Chimney' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 550. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):64 (March, 1959).

Lc. Bonanza 'Frances Wilkinson' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Frances Wilkinson' AM/ODC 82.2 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. R. O. Wagner. ODC Award Number 551. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 and 64 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo. OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #56214, attributed to the Steve McNerney.

Lc. Bonanza 'Frances Wilkinson' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

December 8, 1958, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cypripedium Charjan 'Questover' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 552. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580366).

Phalaenopsis Star of Rio 'Malibu AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Star of Rio 'Malibu' AM/ODC 83.4 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 553. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 and 64 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo. OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo (mirror image), image #287667. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19580365).

Phalaenopsis Star of Rio 'Malibu AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Dendrobium Lady Hamilton 'El Sereno' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Gordon Sawyer. ODC Award Number 554. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19580367).

Slc. Copenhagen 'Herbrita' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crothers. ODC Award Number 555. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580369).

Lc. Bonanza 'Sister' HCC/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 556. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580368).

December 15, 1958, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Leo Holguin' FCC/ODC 91.6 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 560. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959).

Cypripedium John Dovan 'The Friar' AM/ODC 83.5 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 561. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959).

December 16, 1958, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Phalaenopsis Ramona 'Purity' HCC/ODC 79.5 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 557. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):61 (March, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79.5 points (AOS Award Number 19580377).

Cypripedium Ingcar 'Tiffin' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Walter Diggelman. ODC Award Number 558. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):61 (March, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19580375).

Phalaenopsis Judy Karleen 'Fiesta' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Herb Hager Orchids. ODC Award Number 559? Published in ODC Awards List (without an award number, it should probably be 559 in order to fall in the correct date and sequence), Orchid Digest 23(2):61 (March, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19580376).

[AOS records show two additional awards at this event: Blc. Norman's Bay 'Ralph Wagner' AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19580373, and OrchidPro has a color photo), exhibited by Ralph O. Wagner, Oakland, CA; and Vanda Rothschildiana 'Claire Nakagawa' AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19580374, and OrchidPro has a color photo), exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery, Hilo, HI.]

December 29, 1958, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. Ibabilis 'Katea' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Earl and Katy Monson. ODC Award Number 582. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 (March, 1959). Note: SCOS #198.

January 10, 1959, Peninsula Orchid Society, venue not stated:

Lc. Frolla 'Marjorie' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by R. A. Gunther. ODC Award Number 571. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959).

Cypripedium Pacific Ocean 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Pacific Ocean 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 572. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 and 62 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

Cypripedium Glenshea 'Elaine' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Wilson's Orchids. ODC Award Number 573. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959).

Cypripedium Glenpit 'Peninsula' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 574. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959).

Cypripedium Sea Cliff 'Phoebe' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 575. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959).

Cypripedium Greenhorn 'Lyda' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Ed Duensing. ODC Award Number 576. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959).

January 12, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya New Albion 'Starlight' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 583. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959). Note: OSSC #604. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590001).

Lc. Princess Ishtar 'Ruby' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Cecil Wooldridge. ODC Award Number 584. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959). Note: OSSC #605. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590004).

Vauda Mabelmae Kamahele 'Ruby' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by M. L. Higgins. ODC Award Number 585. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959). Note: OSSC #606. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590005).

Cypripedium Roseling 'Two' HCC/ODC 76.4 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 586. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959). Note: OSSC #607. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590003, with cultivar name 'No. 2').

Cypripedium Bruno 'Model' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 587. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 (March, 1959). Note: OSSC #608. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590002). We think the photo credited to Carol DeBiase in OrchidWiz, image #109486, with the correct award and exhibitor, is the award photo.

Paphiopedilum Bruno 'Model' HCC/AOS, from OrchidWiz

January 19, 1959, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Miltonia Storm 'Peggy Johnston' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia Storm 'Peggy Johnston' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 580. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):63 and 64 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

January 20, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and possibly shared photography.]

Miltonia Anjou 'Jean' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia Anjou 'Jean' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Ralph E. Hoyt. ODC Award Number 578. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(2):62 and 63 (March, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590018).

[AOS records also include one additional award for this event, Vanda Rothschildiana 'Joy Nakagawa' AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19590019, and OrchidPro has a color photo).]

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Joy Nakagawa' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

February 9, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Slc. Lindores 'Queen of Hearts' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Slc. Lindores 'Queen of Hearts' AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 588. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):10 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 and 124 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19590035).

Slc. Lindores 'Queen of Hearts' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Slc. Jane Miyoshi 'Dorothy' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Karl H. Mayer. ODC Award Number 589. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):11 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590044).

Lc. Asgard 'Nellie' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Dr. Charles Grimes. ODC Award Number 590. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):11 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590043).

Cattleya Los Gatos 'Fluffy' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 591. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):11 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590038).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Blue Mist' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by Gordon Sawyer. ODC Award Number 592. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):10 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590045, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Blue Mist' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cymbidium Flirtation 'Princess Royal' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 594. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):12 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590039).

Epidendrum stamfordianum 'Green Thumb' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Epidendrum stamfordianum 'Green Thumb' CCM/ODC 86.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crothers. ODC Award Number 595. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):11 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 and 121 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 87 points (AOS Award Number 19590037).

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Goleta' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Cobb's Orchids. ODC Award Number 596. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):10 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590041, and the AOS award slide has been located in a collection of CSA slides at the Huntington Botanical Canter).

Cattleya Lindores 'Queen of Hearts' AM/AOS, new scan from CSA award slide collection at the Huntington Botanical Center

Cymbidium Glendora 'Del Mar' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 597. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):10 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 87 points (AOS Award Number 19590040).

[Cypripedium Eridge 'AM Variety' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Wilson. ODC Award Number 598. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). The award was published late in Orchid Digest (the other awards from this OSSC session had been published there in the May-June and July-August issues), without parentage. There is no corresponding record in the awards lists published in the OSSC Review, but there is one additional OSSC award from this event that is omitted in the ODC Awards List, Cypripedium Raycraft, see below. In fact, the Eridge award seems to be identical with the one found in AOS records as Cypripedium Eridge 'Penn Valley' HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590028), exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. William W. Wilson of Wynnewood, PA at New York Regional Monthly Judging on January 28, 1959. But how did it get into ODC records, to be published in November, 1959? It might have been sent as a cut flower to some ODC judging site in February, 1959, but without additional information, no further explanation seems possible.]

Cypripedium Redezelle 'Ten' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Redezelle 'Ten' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 599. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):11 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959) and black-and-white photo as '#10' in 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590034, as Redezelle 'No. 10').

Cypripedium Redezelle 'Betty' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Redezelle 'Betty' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 600. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):11 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received ACM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590033).

Cypripedium Redezelle AQ/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Redezelle AQ/ODC, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 601. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):11 (March, 1959), ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo on the frontispiece of this issue. At the same event, this plant received AQ/AOS (AOS Award Number 19590036).

Cypripedium Redezelle AQ/ODC, from Orchid Digest, full resolution

Cypripedium Raycraft 'Surprise' HCC/ODC 75.03 points, exhibited by R. A. MacLeod. Lacks ODC award number. Published in OSSC Review 1(2):10 (March, 1959), where it is shown as HCC/ODC and HCC/AOS. However, there is no AOS record of this award, and in fact, there is no registration record for this grex. The parentage is listed as Chastity × Bordubi, the second parent probably an error for Bordube, and no such cross has been registered. Whatever this plant was, its ODC and AOS awards would not have been accepted, due to its registration status. From the OSSC Review, it was a first-bloom seedling, "One flower with dorsal and ventral sepals of white, with slight spotting in center of dorsal. Petals white with slight maroon dots and veins; Good substance and texture. Natural spread 4"..."

February 14, 1959, Sacramento Orchid Society Show, Sacramento, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cypripedium Mooreheart 'Sacramento' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 602. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590050).

Cypripedium La Honda 'Sacramento' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 603. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590049).

Phalaenopsis Ann Fisher 'Dee Zee' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Melvin H. Dittmer. ODC Award Number 604. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590051).

Cypripedium Golden Diana 'Doris' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Oliver Hopson. ODC Award Number 605. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590048).

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Dee Zee' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Melvin Dittmer. ODC Award Number 606. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590052).

February 17, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cymbidium Golden Turk 'Santa Cruz' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 607. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590054).

Cymbidium Ispahan 'Mascot' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by C. E. Wilson. ODC Award Number 608. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590055).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Redington' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Redington' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Charles Blyth. ODC Award Number 609. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 and 118 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590056).

February 23, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. Kismet Queen 'Miss Charming' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 610. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #199.

Cattleya Los Gatos 'Whitey' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 611. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #200.

Cattleya Los Gatos 'Snow Ball' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 612. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #202.

Cypripedium Mariano Martin 'Rolly' HCC/ODC, from OSSC Review

Cypripedium Mariano Martin 'Rolly' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 613. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959), and a black-and-white photo on the cover of OSSC Review 4(3) and again in 4(4) (March and April, 1962). Note: SCOS #203.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Red Velvet' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 614. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #201.

Cattleya White Way 'Snow Fall' HCC/ODC, from OSSC Review

Cattleya White Way 'Snow Fall' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Albert R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 615. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #204.

Cypripedium Michael Stewart 'Golden Perfection' HCC/ODC 76.9 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 616. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #205.

March 6, 1959, Monterey Bay Orchid Society Show, Watsonville, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cypripedium Santa Margarita 'Pajaro' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 617. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590098).

Cymbidium Trade Winds 'Pajaro Verde' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Trade Winds 'Pajaro Verde' AM/ODC 83.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 618. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19590081).

Cymbidium Edna Cobb 'Peach Blush' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 619. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590085).

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Golden Gate' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 620. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590096, but the exhibitor is listed in the Register of Awards Suppl. II 320 as Mrs. William H. Andrews, Pasadena, CA).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Empire' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 621. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590090).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Carnival' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 622. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590089). Some records call this cultivar 'Carival', which seems unlikely.

Blc. Adario 'Sun Acres' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Blc. Adario 'Sun Acres' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Albert R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 623. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590078, and OrchidPro has color photo).

Blc. Adario 'Sun Acres' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Lc. Bonanza 'Crown Royal' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by A. R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 624. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590101).

Lc. Bonanza 'Cathedral City' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Albert R. Stephenson. ODC Award Number 625. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590100). OrchidWiz has the likely award photo, image #56210, attributed to Steve McNerney, citing the correct award and exhibitor. There seems to be no other record of an award for this cultivar.

Lc. Bonanza 'Cathedral City' HCC/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cymbidium Ispahan 'Springtime' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 626. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590086).

Cymbidium Jade 'Daffodil' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. E. Simpson. ODC Award Number 627. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590087). The grex was first registered, apparently in 1933, registrant information unknown, then again as Cymbidium Chepstow Castle in 1959 by Stuart Low Co. Does anyone know the story of this change?

Cypripedium Cameo 'Wyld Court' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Cameo 'Wyld Court' CCM/ODC 82.1 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 628. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590082).

Cypripedium W. N. Evans 'Brilliance' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. ODC Award Number 629. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):119 (May, 1959).

Bc. Lynne Redmond 'Harriet Crompton' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Bc. Lynne Redmond 'Harriet Crompton' AM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by Mrs. Marylin Crompton. ODC Award Number 630. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590077). OrchidWiz has a color version (mirror image) of the award photo, image #117462, attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Bc. Lynne Redmond 'Harriet Crompton' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Arden' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Virgil S. Ford. ODC Award Number 631. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590083).

Cymbidium Samarkand 'Dominican' HCC/ODC 78.2 points, exhibited by Birchlane Gardens. ODC Award Number 632. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590094).

Cymbidium Marisa 'Hillsborough' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 633. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590091).

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Lil Reese' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Donald Keeney. ODC Award Number 634. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590104).

Dendrobium Ale Ale Kai 'Purple Queen' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Roy Yahiro. ODC Award Number 635. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590099).

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Galaxy' HCC/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 636. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590095).

Cymbidium Nikkietta 'Pink Gem' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 637. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590093).

Cymbidium Nikkietta 'Janice' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 638. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590092).

Phalaenopsis Mistinguett 'Pink Beauty' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 639. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959).

Miltonia Jean Sabourin 'Gisors' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 640. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590103).

Cymbidium San Francisco 'Twin Peaks' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 641. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590097).

Cymbidium Lady Moxham 'Orange Gem' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 642. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590088).

Cymbidium Leedja Cleon 'Her Majesty' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Leedja Cleon 'Her Majesty' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 643. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo on the cover of this issue. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590080).

Cymbidium Inamorata 'Rotunda' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Inamorata 'Rotunda' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 644. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):120 and 121 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590079, and OrchidPro has a color photo). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287684.

Cymbidium Inamorata 'Rotunda' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cymbidium Edna Cobb 'Cantata' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 707. Published in ODC Awards List with date of February, 1959, but the award number is out of sequence for the date, the entry has not yet been found in Orchid Digest. This award appears to be from the Monterey Bay Orchid Society Show on March 6, 1959, based on an AOS award record for the same cultivar at that show, with the same exhibitor and an equivalent point score, HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590084).

March 9, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging amd evidence of shared photography.]

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Noma' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Noma' AM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by J. W. Baumgartner. ODC Award Number 657. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 and 121 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590116, and a black-and-white photo was published with the award, AOS Bulletin 28(10):762 (October, 1959)). Note: Orchid Digest shows cultivar as 'Homa' in photo caption.

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Noma' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cypripedium Dicksum 'Blanche' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Gordon E. Sawyer. ODC Award Number 658. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590123). Note: Orchid Digest shows grex name as Dicksun, which is incorrect.

Cymbidium Judy 'Noma' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Judy 'Noma' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by J. W. Baumgartner. ODC Award Number 659. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 and 122 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590115, and a black-and-white photo was published with the award, AOS Bulletin 28(10):762 (October, 1959)).

Cymbidium Judy 'Noma' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin

Cypripedium Redezelle 'Three' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest 25(4)

Cypripedium Redezelle 'Three' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 660. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590117, with cultivar name 'No. 3'). Published in Register of Awards Suppl. II 322, with black and white photo, and in AOS Bulletin 28(10):762 (October, 1959) with black and white photo. A color version of the award photo was published in AOS Bulletin 48(11):1150 (November, 1979). The ODC award photo was published later, 25(4):153.

Paphiopedilum Redezelle 'No. 3' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 28(1):762

Paphiopedilum Redezelle 'No. 3' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 48(11):1150

Cattleya Ray Park 'Dorothy' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Dorothy Lemon . ODC Award Number 661. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590120).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Persian Princess' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 662. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590121).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'White Satin' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 663. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590122).

Cattleya Ave Maria 'Frances Said' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Katy and Earl Monson. ODC Award Number 664. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590118).

Cattleya Mimir 'Sigurd' HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 665. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590119).

March 16, 1959, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Cymbidium Jungfrau 'Lynn' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 653. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959).

Cymbidium Pixie Moor 'Olympus' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cymbidium Pixie Moor 'Olympus' AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 654. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):121 and 122 (May, 1959) with black-and-white photo. Note: Orchid Digest shows grex name as Pixie Poor.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Olympic Run' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 655. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):122 (May, 1959).

Cattleya Bowbest 'Olympus' AM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 656. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959).

March 17, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cymbidium Marisa 'San Francisco' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 645. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). Note: Orchid Digest shows grex name as Marissa, which is incorrect. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590144).

Cymbidium Gwen Sherman 'Brilliance' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Shaffer's Tropical Gardens. ODC Award Number 646. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590142).

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Henry' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Derruau. ODC Award Number 647. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590148, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Henry' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Phalaenopsis Pacifica 'Easter' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Derruau. ODC Award Number 648. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590146).

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Charles' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Derruau. ODC Award Number 649. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590147).

Cymbidium Balkinald 'San Rafael' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Birchlane Gardens. ODC Award Number 650. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590140).

Odontonia Salam 'Toulouse' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 651. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). Note: Orchid Digest shows grex name as Salem. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590145).

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Beauty' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 652. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):117 (May, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590143).

[AOS records include three more awards here, Vanda Nellie Morley 'Roy' AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590138, and OrchidPro has a color photo), exhibited by Roy Matsumoto of Honolulu, HI; and Cattleya Bow Bells 'Snowball' HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590139), exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph O. Wagner of Oakland, CA; and Cymbidium Eliot Rogers 'Red Beauty' HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590141), exhibited by Rod McLellan Co., South San Francisco, CA.]

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Roy' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

March 23, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Cymbidium Lillian Stewart 'Silver Light' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 666. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #206.

Cymbidium Edna Cobb 'Golden Light' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 667. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #212.

Lc. Paradisio 'Colossal' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 668. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #208.

Cymbidium Alexanderi 'Margaret' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by John N. Vidulich. ODC Award Number 669. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #207.

Cypripedium Lady Sara 'Los Altos' HCC/ODC 76.1 points, exhibited by Jean and Dean Field. ODC Award Number 670. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #209.

Cattleya Los Gatos 'Buppy' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by W. F. Uhlman. ODC Award Number 671. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #210.

Blc. Big Bear 'Sunny Hills' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 672. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):118 (May, 1959). Note: SCOS #211.

Lc. Golden Concolor 'Golden Fleece' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Crothers. ODC Award Number 673. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #213.

April 13, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Slc. Brandywine 'Gigi' FCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Slc. Brandywine 'Gigi' FCC/ODC 90.4 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 674. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959) with black-and-white photo on the cover of this issue. At the same event, this plant received FCC/AOS 90 points (AOS Award Number 19590232). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287700, although it is badly cropped.

Slc. Brandywine 'Gigi' FCC/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cymbidium Great Day 'Distinction' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 675. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590235).

Lc. Joseph Ozzella 'Majestic' HCC/ODC 75.4 points, exhibited by R. Jeal. ODC Award Number 676. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590239, with grex name Memoria Joseph Ozzella, which is correct).

Vanda Rothschildiana 'H. G. Graf' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Rothschildiana 'H. G. Graf' AM/ODC 80.9 points, exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery. ODC Award Number 677. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590234, showing the cultivar name as 'Nakagawa').

Cymbidium Great Day 'Susan Andrews' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Marion Andrews. ODC Award Number 678. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590236).

Cymbidium Tinsel 'Bridget' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Lola Lane Hanlon. ODC Award Number 679. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590237).

Lycaste skinneri virginalis 'H. Tuescher' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lycaste skinneri virginalis 'H. Tuescher' AM/ODC 81.2 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 680. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):172 and 174 (July, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590233, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Lycaste virginalis 'H. Teuscher' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Miltonia Anjou 'Charlie Brown' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia Anjou 'Charlie Brown' HCC/ODC 79.9 points, exhibited by R. A. MacLeod. ODC Award Number 681. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 and 175 (July, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590240).

Epicattleya Ecstasy 'Flowerland' HCC/ODC 75.43 points, exhibited by Mark Higgins. Lacks ODC award number. Published in OSSC Review 1(4):13 (May, 1959), apparently never published in Orchid Digest. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590238).

April 21, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Bc. Imperialis 'Marjorie' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Virgil S. Ford. ODC Award Number 682. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):172 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590246).

Phalaenopsis Texas Star 'Alixe' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Wylma Lawton. ODC Award Number 683. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):172 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590250).

Phalaenopsis Alice Bowen 'Susan' HCC/ODC 78.7 points, exhibited by Wylma Lawton. ODC Award Number 684. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):172 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590249).

Cymbidium Presidio 'Nugget' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 685. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):172 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590247).

Lc. Bou Philippo 'Butterfield' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Wilson's Orchids. ODC Award Number 686. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590248).

April 27, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Epidendrum atro-purpureum 'Dawn' CBM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by May Snyder. ODC Award Number 686. Published in , SCOS newsletter. Note: SCOS #214.

Lc. (Cattleya Ardmore x Lc. Areca 'Model') HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Morris Holmquist. ODC Award Number 687. Published in , SCOS newsletter. Note: SCOS #215; this hybrid seems never to have been registered, the Lc. parent is now correctly C. Areca.

Phalaenopsis Overture 'Los Altos' HCC/AOS, from Orchid Digest 26(9)

Phalaenopsis Overture 'Los Altos' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by Jean and Dean Field. ODC Award Number 688. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). Note: SCOS #216. A photo of this plant, apparently the award photo, was published on the cover of Orchid Digest 26(9) (November, 1962).

May 11, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Phalaenopsis Nuel N. Songer 'Canary Star' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by R. A. MacLeod. ODC Award Number 698. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590257). Note: OSSC #641.

Phalaenopsis Palm Beach 'Malibu' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 699. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590258). Note: OSSC #642.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Everest' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Jeal's Orchids. ODC Award Number 700. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590255). Note: OSSC #643. The award photo appears to be the one found in OrchidWiz, image #55635, attributed to Steve McNerney, listing the award and the exhibitor.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Everest' AM/AOS, from OrchidWiz

Miltonia Storm 'Desert Red' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by William S. McEwan. ODC Award Number 701. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590256). Note: OSSC #644.

May 18, 1959, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Miltonia Woodlands 'Ebony' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 689. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):174 (July, 1959).

May 19, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Phalaenopsis Ramona 'Purity' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Ramona 'Purity' AM/ODC 83.5 points, exhibited by J. Frank Hughes. ODC Award Number 690. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):172 and 173 (July, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19590265, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Phalaenopsis Ramona 'Purity' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Phalaenopsis Shirley Temple 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 691. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590272).

Phalaenopsis Leah 'Vallemar' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Leah 'Vallemar' AM/ODC 81.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 692. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4): 172 and 173 (July, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590264). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287701.

Phalaenopsis Leah 'Vallemar' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Odontoglossum Stropheon 'Vallemar' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Stropheon 'Vallemar' AM/ODC 82.6 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 693. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 and 174 (July, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 83 points (AOS Award Number 19590263).

Odontoglossum Perolia 'Pacifica' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 694. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590271, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Odontoglossum Perolia 'Pacifica' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Typhon 'Elizabeth' HCC/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by Richard Stone. ODC Award Number 695. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590270).

Lc. Ann Follis 'San Mateo' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 696. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959). At the same event, this plant, or possibly another one from the group that was awarded the AQ/ODC, received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590269) under the cultivar name 'San Francisco'. However, in an article explaining these AOS awards (AOS Bulletin 29(2):98-99 (February, 1960), the awarded cultivar from this occasion is called 'San Mateo' HCC/AOS 75.3 points, and the article references the previous award to the cultivar 'Greensleeves', "granted an Award of Merit by both the American Orchid Society and the Orchid Digest Corporation", giving the date as May 20, 1958. The cultivar name 'San Francisco' is apparently an error, and 'San Mateo' seems to be the correct one.

Lc. Ann Follis 'San Mateo' HCC/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 29(2):99

Lc. Ann Follis AQ/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Ann Follis AQ/ODC, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 697. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(4):173 (July, 1959), with black-and-white photo on p. 178. At the same event, this group of plants awarded the AQ/AOS (AOS Award Number 19590267) and AD/AOS (AOS Award Number 19590268). A color version of the award photo was published the AOS Bulletin 29(2):84 (February, 1960), but the digitized version on the AOS web site is in black and white.

Lc. Ann Follis AQ/AOS AD/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 29(2):99

Vanda sanderiana 'Little Peggy' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda sanderiana 'Little Peggy' AM/ODC 83.8 points, exhibited by George Young. ODC Award Number 788. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):18 (January, 1960) and black-and-white photo on the cover of this issue, but listed there among the October 20, 1959 awards from Oakland. The ODC Awards List places this record in May, 1959, in spite of its ODC award number, consistent with AOS records, which show this cultivar with AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19590266).

May 25, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Dendrobium Gatton Sunray 'FCC/RHS' HCC/ODC 76.5 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 708. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 (September, 1959). Note: SCOS #217.

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Nakagawa' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Nakagawa' AM/ODC 81.4 points, exhibited by Nakagawa Orchid Nursery. ODC Award Number 709. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 and 218 (September, 1959) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #218.

June 8, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Phalaenopsis Pasadena 'Delight' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Lois A. Todd. Lacks ODC award number. Published in OSSC Review 1(6):13 (July, 1959), but apparently never published in Orchid Digest. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590277, and OrchidPro has a color photo). Note: OSSC #645.

Phalaenopsis Pasadena 'Delight' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. Nell Howard 'Lisa Ann' HCC/ODC 75.16 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Rolan Howard. Lacks ODC award number. Published in OSSC Review 1(6):13 (July, 1959), but apparently never published in Orchid Digest. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590278). Note: OSSC #646.

June 15, 1959, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Coelogyne Burfordiense 'Barbara Jane' CBM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Coelogyne Burfordiense 'Barbara Jane' (asperata x pandurata) CBM/ODC 83.8 points, exhibited by Bert Field. ODC Award Number 702. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 and 218 (September, 1959) with black-and-white photo. Note: Published with grex "burfordiensis", parentage asperata × pandurata. The hybrid Burfordiense, with this parentage, was supposedly registered by E. F. Lawrence of Sacramento, CA in 1911, according to OrchidWiz, but other sources show the originator was Sir James John Trevor Lawrence, Baronet, 1831-1913, President of the Royal Horticultural Society 1883-1913.

Miltonia vexillaria 'Volunteer Park' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Miltonia vexillaria 'Volunteer Park' CCM/ODC 84.3 points, exhibited by Seattle Park Department. ODC Award Number 703. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):218 (September, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

June 16, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Laura' AM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Bechetl. ODC Award Number 704. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 (September, 1959). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590285

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Don Cher' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Keeney. ODC Award Number 705. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 (September, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590286

Phalaenopsis Overture 'Irene' HCC/ODC 79.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Derruau. ODC Award Number 706. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 (September, 1959). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590287

[AOS records include one more award here, Cattleya Tethys 'Mona' AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590284), exhibited by Mrs. Ronnie Wilson of Belmont, CA.]

June 22, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Epidendrum tampense 'Margaret' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Epidendrum tampense 'Margaret' CCM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by John N. Vidulich. ODC Award Number 710. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 and 218 (September, 1959) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #219.

Odontoglossum Bassanio 'Oro' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by John W. Yuill. ODC Award Number 711. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 (September, 1959). Note: SCOS #220; ODC Awards List shows July, not June, but correct as published in Orchid Digest and SCOS.

July 13, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Odessa 'Golden West' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by R. C. Cameron. ODC Award Number 717. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590296). Note: OSSC #649.

Vanda Nellie Morley 'Flowerland' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Mark L. Higgins. ODC Award Number 718. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590297). Note: OSSC #650.

[AOS records include two more awards from this event: Ansellia confusa var. lutea (no cultivar named) CBM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590298, OSSC #648), exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Rolan R. Howard of Hawthorne, CA; and Renanthera Brookie Chandler 'Higgins' CCM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590299, OSSC #647), exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Higgins of Carpinteria, CA (in some other records Mark I. Higgins). Neither of these genera are included in the ODC Awards List. OSSC Review 1(7) indicates these awards were intended as AOS only.]

July 20, 1959, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Hing' HCC/ODC 75.1 points, exhibited by Joe W. Hing. ODC Award Number 712. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):218 (September, 1959).

Cattleya Tethys 'Midnight' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Tethys 'Midnight' AM/ODC 81.3 points, exhibited by Gordon M. Hoyt Orchids. ODC Award Number 713. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):218 (September, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

July 21, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Blc. Camilla 'Gold Dust' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Jeal's Orchids. ODC Award Number 714. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 (September, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590301).

Lc. Golden Gate 'Betty' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Kay Rinaman. ODC Award Number 715. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 (September, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590302).

Cypripedium McLaren Park 'San Mateo' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium McLaren Park 'San Mateo' AM/ODC 81.8 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 716. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(5):217 and 218 (September, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590300). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287708.

Cypripedium McLaren Park 'San Mateo' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'San Jose' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Keeney. ODC Award Number 732. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590303).

July 27, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Lc. Halloween 'Sunny Hills' HCC/ODC 79.7 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 719. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #221.

Lc. Faith Dee Fanchaly 'Old Gold' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Faith Dee Fanchaly 'Old Gold' AM/ODC 81.2 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 720. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #222; Orchid Digest shows grex name as Faith Dee Fanchley in the photo caption.

Blc. Nacouchee 'Fran' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by D. J. Henderson. ODC Award Number 721. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #223.

Lc. Golden Gate 'Susie' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Wallar. ODC Award Number 722. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #224.

Lc. S. J. Bracey 'Orchid Hollow' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Arnold and Betty Jo Miller. ODC Award Number 723. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #225.

Cattleya David Tipton 'Vernon' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Thelma M. duckett. ODC Award Number 724. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #226.

Blc. Golden Feather 'Sundown' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Roy M. Field. ODC Award Number 725. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). Note: SCOS #227.

Lc. Maria Ozzella AM/ODC 83.5 points, exhibited by Leonard L. Weber. ODC Award Number 726. Published in , SCOS newsletter. Note: SCOS #228.

August 10, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Faith Dee Fanchaly 'Copper Queen' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 733. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590312). Note: OSSC #651.

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Cynthia' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Empress Bells 'Cynthia' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Mr. Chew Wong. ODC Award Number 734. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 and 271 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590308). Note: OSSC #652.

Blc. Painted Desert 'High Noon' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by Jeal's Orchid Nursery. ODC Award Number 735. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590310). Note: OSSC #654.

Blc. Golden Feather 'Palmer's' HCC/ODC 78.6 points, exhibited by K. L. Palmer. ODC Award Number 736. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590309). Note: OSSC #655.

Lc. Oakland 'Flamboyant' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Marian Andrews. ODC Award Number 737. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590313). Note: OSSC #656.

[AOS records include one more award here, Blc. Painted Desert 'Sunset' HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590311), exhibited by Jeal's Orchid Nursery, Torrance, CA. This record is not in the ODC Awards List, because the same cultivar received an AM/ODC in SCOS judging on July 28, 1958. OSSC #653.]

August 18, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Odontoglossum Connero 'Strawberry Hill' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Connero 'Strawberry Hill' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. Charles Blyth. ODC Award Number 726. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 and 269 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590319). Note: Orchid Digest shows grex name as Ponnero in photo caption, Connero in text.

Odontoglossum Perolia 'Vallemar' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Perolia 'Vallemar' AM/ODC 83.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 727. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19590320, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Odontoglossum Perolia 'Vallemar' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Oncidium excavatum 'Sacramento' CBM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Oncidium excavatum 'Sacramento' CBM/ODC 80.3 points, exhibited by Roy Hardy. ODC Award Number 728. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received CBM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590325).

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Pacifica' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Pacifica' AM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 729. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590321). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287710.

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Pacifica' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Phalaenopsis Overture 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 76.2 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 730. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590324, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Phalaenopsis Overture 'Vallemar' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

Odontoglossum Perolia 'Strawberry Hill' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. Charles Blyth. ODC Award Number 731. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959) and again 24(5):217 (May, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590323, and OrchidPro has a color photo). Note: A later award for this cultiver, in 1990 (AOS Award Number 19900857) is illustrated in OrchidPro by a completely different plant, even though the description is consistent with Perolia 'Strawberry Hill'.

Odontoglossum Perolia 'Strawberry Hill' HCC/AOS, from OrchidPro

[AOS records include one more award here, Blc. Camilla 'Golden Dawn' HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590322). This award is omitted from ODC records because it had already received an equivalent award at SCOS judging in July, 1958, see above.]

August 27, 1959, 7th Western Orchid Congress, Portland, OR:

Blc. Hodaka 'Trudy' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by John Baker. ODC Award Number 758. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

Lc. Derryname 'Snowy Dawn' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 759. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Portland' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Portland' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 760. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 and 269 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Metacom 'Yellowstone' HCC/ODC 78.8 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 761. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

Lc. Ripple Rock 'Midnight' AM/ODC 82.2 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 762. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Olympus' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Olympus' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 763. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 and 270 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

Phalaenopsis Pacifica 'Portland' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 764. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

Cattleya Pearl Harbor 'Josephine' HCC/ODC 79.2 points, exhibited by Chew Wong. ODC Award Number 765. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

Cymbidium Peter Pan 'Renton' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Mrs. E. K. Field. ODC Award Number 766. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

Lc. Betty Power 'Oregon Centennial' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Benjamin L. Bird. ODC Award Number 767. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

Lc. Agni 'Burton Belle' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 768. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):267 (November, 1959).

September 14, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Blc. Norman's Bay 'Ruby' HCC/ODC 77.6 points, exhibited by A. C. Zimmerman. ODC Award Number 738. Published in OD, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). OSSC Review 1(9) (October, 1959) specifies that this award was ODC only, presumably because the same cultivar had already received a higher award from AOS in 1958, although that was again at OSSC judging, counted as an ODC award, so the present award should not have been given under any circumstances.

Lc. Quadroon 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Quadroon 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC 80.2 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 739. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 and 271 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590330). OrchidWiz has a color version (mirror image) of the award photo, image #117902. attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Lc. Quadroon 'Sunny Hills' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Phalaenopsis Doris 'Malibu' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 740. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):269 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590332).

Phalaenopsis Palm Beach 'Country Acres' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 741. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590333).

Pleurothallis tuerckheimii 'Kennedy's' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Pleurothallis tuerckheimii 'Kennedy's' CBM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Dr. George Kennedy. ODC Award Number 742. Published in Orchid Digest 23(6):269 and 270 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received CBM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590334, where it is currently listed under the name Stelis megachlamys 'Kennedy'). Note: OSSC judged this as Pleurothallis birchenelli 'Kennedy's', an error for birchenallii, now regarded as a synonym of Pleurothallis glossopogon, seemingly a very different plant from tuerckheimii, recorded by AOS for the results of the same judging session; ODC Awards List gives date as September, 1958, in error. OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287713.

Pleurothallis tuerckheimii 'Kennedy's' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Blc. Harlequin 'Act I' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest 30(5)

Blc. Harlequin 'Act I' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 743. Published in ODC Awards List (75.8 points), Orchid Digest 24(8):353 (September, 1960) (75.8 points), but the first publication, OSSC Review 1(9):13, shows 80.25 points! This award became widely known, and the higher score is undoubtedly the correct one. Far less certain is the correct award photo. Probably the best candidate is the one that appeared on the cover of the AOS Bulletin 30(1) (January, 1961), attributed to (and perhaps that only means, supplied by) the B. O. Bracey Co. The Bracey photo matches one published in Orchid Digest 30(5):145 in an article about Ben Bracey, with the caption including the designation "A.M./AOS-ODC".

Rlc. Harlequin 'Act I' AM/AOS, from AOS Bulletin 39(1)

Lc. Quadroon 'Voodoo' HCC/ODC 79.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 744. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590331).

September 15, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Pacific 'Redfire' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Ralph E. Hoyt. ODC Award Number 745. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590341). Note: ODC Awards List has date September, 1959, but Orchid Digest published this as part of August; the September date is correct, confirmed by the corresponding AOS award.

Lc. Helen Wilmer 'Oliver Lines' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Virgil S. Ford. ODC Award Number 746. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590340). Note: ODC Awards List has date September, 1959, but Orchid Digest published this as part of August; the September date is correct, confirmed by the corresponding AOS award.

Lc. White Opal 'Larkspur' AM/ODC 81.1 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 747. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590336). Note: ODC Awards List has date September, 1959, but Orchid Digest published this as part of August; the September date is correct, confirmed by the corresponding AOS award. OrchidWiz has the likely award photo, image #117989, attributed ot the William Merritt Collection, citing the correct award and exhibitor.

Lc. White Opal 'Larkspur' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Lc. White Opal 'Inez' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. White Opal 'Inez' AM/ODC 84 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 748. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 and 269 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 84 points (AOS Award Number 19590335). Note: ODC Awards List has date September, 1959, but Orchid Digest published this as part of August; the September date is correct, confirmed by the corresponding AOS award. OrchidWiz has a color version (mirror image) of the award photo, image #117988, attributed to the William Merritt Collection.

Lc. White Opal 'Inez' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Blc. San Leandro 'Kay' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Kay Rinaman. ODC Award Number 749. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 777 points (AOS Award Number 19590337). Note: ODC Awards List has date September, 1959, but Orchid Digest published this as part of August; the September date is correct, confirmed by the corresponding AOS award.

Cattleya Pele 'Goddess of Fire' HCC/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 750. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):268 (November, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590338). Note: ODC Awards List has date September, 1959, but Orchid Digest published this as part of August; the September date is correct, confirmed by the corresponding AOS award.

Cypripedium San Carlos 'Terry' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Kay Rinaman. ODC Award Number 751. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(5):217 (May, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590339).

September 21, 1959, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Lc. Princess Ishtar 'Mildred Black' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Princess Ishtar 'Mildred Black' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 769. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(6):270 and 271 (November, 1959) with black-and-white photo.

September 28, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Cattleya David Tipton 'Susan' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Arthur E. Falk. ODC Award Number 770. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: SCOS #230.

Phalaenopsis Dos Pueblos 'Mary Ann' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Pernel George Barnett. ODC Award Number 771. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: The SCOS newsletter lists instead at this point Phalaenopsis Margaret Bean 'Mary Ann' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Pernel George Barnett, SCOS #231, an award record that is not found in the ODC Awards List. Presumably, the version in Orchid Digest is the correct record.

Lc. Asgard 'The God Thor' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 772. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: SCOS #233.

Cattleya (Leah Adis x Snowdon) HCC/ODC 75.9 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 773. Published in , SCOS newsletter. Note: SCOS #234; this hybrid seems never to have been registered.

Lc. Maria Ozzella 'Red Rock' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Maria Ozzella 'Red Rock' AM/ODC 82.8 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. ODC Award Number 774. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 and 20 (January, 1960) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #235.

Dendrobium American Beauty 'Los Altos' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Jean and Dean Field. ODC Award Number 775. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: SCOS #236.

Lc. Amber Glow 'Pamela Martin' HCC/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Dr. John G. Martin. ODC Award Number 776. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: SCOS #237.

Vanda Rothschildiana 'High Tide' HCC/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by William F. Uhlman. ODC Award Number 777. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: SCOS #238.

Cattleya Portia 'Mayflower' HCC/ODC 78.5 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. Lacks ODC award number. Published in , SCOS newsletter. Note: SCOS #229; SCOS newsletter shows the award as "SCOS HCC"; note there were two plants of this same cultivar exhibited at the same judging session.

Cattleya Portia 'Mayflower' HCC/ODC 78.9 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. Lacks ODC Award Number. Published in , SCOS newsletter. Note: SCOS #232; SCOS newsletter shows the award as "SCOS HCC"; note there were two plants of this same cultivar exhibited at the same judging session. The judges were probably aware of an earlier award for the same cultivar, and that the two awards here were redundant.

October 12, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Portia 'Country Acres' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 778. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590381).

Paphiopedilum Greentippe 'Scott' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium Greentippe 'Scott' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 779. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590382).

Lc. H. G. Alexander 'Teresa' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. H. G. Alexander 'Teresa' AM/ODC 82.3 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 780. Published in ODC Awards List but with the date in error, as October, 1958, and in Orchid Digest 24(1):18 and 20 (January, 1960) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590376).

Cattleya Mission Bells 'Thunder Cloud' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Karl Meyer. ODC Award Number 781. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590380).

Blc. Marguerite Brightman 'Sincere' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Armacost & Royston, Inc. ODC Award Number 782. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590377).

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Margaret' HCC/ODC 77.8 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 783. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590378).

Cattleya Madeline Knowlton 'Conquest' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 784. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590379).

Cattleya Chapmanii 'Sueko' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Chapmanii 'Sueko' CCM/ODC 80 points, exhibited by Frank Morishita. ODC Award Number 785. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960) with black-and-white photo on the frontispiece of this issue. At the same event, this plant received CCM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590384). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287717.

Cattleya Chapmanii 'Sueko' CCM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Lc. Adolph Hecker 'Vanguard' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 786. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590383).

October 20, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [Witn concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Pacifica' AM/ODC 80.6 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 789. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):18 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590391, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Pacifica' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Lc. San Francisco 'Hayward' HCC/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by E. W. McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 790. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):18 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590401).

Cypripedium Littledean 'Tokyo' AM/ODC 81.2 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 791. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):18 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590392).

Cypripedium Sea Cliff 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 792. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590398).

Cypripedium Pacific Ocean 'Oakland' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 793. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 23(3):114 (March, 1960). This plant is not on the AOS awards list for this event, but there could have been confusion about two cultivars of Pacific Ocean, each receiving the same score.

Odontioda Ingera 'Sue' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 794. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960).

Odontoglossum Perrymanda 'Denise' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Derruau. ODC Award Number 795. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590405).

Miltonia Jean Kirby Proctor 'Vallemar' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 796. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(8):352 (September, 1960). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590393, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Miltonia Jean Kirby Proctor 'Vallemar' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Phalaenopsis Vallemar 'Oakland' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 797. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590407).

Cypripedium Pacific Ocean 'Vallemar' HCC/ODC 75.7 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. Lacks ODC award number. Published in Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590403). Note: Omitted from ODC Awards List presumably because of a previous award with a higher score. It is also possible that there was only one awarded cultivar of Pacific Ocean at this judging session, and there was confusion about its cultivar name, either 'Oakland' or 'Vallemar'. Both cultivars are mentioned in Orchid Digest, but only one in the ODC Awards List for this date, and only one in AOS records.

Odontoglossum Edalva 'Edith' HCC/ODC 77 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 799. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590402). Note: Orchid Digest shows grex name as Edalvo.

[AOS records show seven additional awards that are not on the ODC awards list for this event: Odontoglossum Ravela 'Alice' AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590394), exhibited by Vallemar Gardens, Pacifica, CA; Blc. Norman's Bay 'Regal' HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590395), exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott, Hillsborough, CA; Blc. Pimola 'Martini' HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590396), exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott, Hillsborough, CA; Lc. Bonanza 'Frontier' HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590399), exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott, Hillsborough, CA; Lc. Lena Baldwin 'Mona' HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590400), exhibited by Mrs. Ronnie Wilson, Belmont, CA; Odontoglossum Kennett 'Elaine' HCC/AOS 79 points (AOS Award Number 19590404), exhibited by Vallemar Gardens, Pacifica, CA; and Odontoglossum Gloden 'Oakland' HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590406, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens, Pacifica, CA.]

October 26, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Cattleya Portiata 'Eva Fern' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Barnett. ODC Award Number 841. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: SCOS #239.

Cattleya Madeline Knowlton 'Pristine' HCC/ODC 78.1 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker. ODC Award Number 842. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: SCOS #240.

Blc. Pinkie 'Debutante' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest 24(1)

Blc. Pinkie 'Debutante' AM/ODC 81.1 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 843. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960) with black-and-white photo and 24(8):354 (September, 1960), with no apparent reason that this record was published twice. Note: SCOS #241. Another photo, seemingly the same flower but from a higher angle, appeared on the cover of Orchid Digest 30(5) in false color, a sort of lurid mauve, which, however, has the effect of providing a much clearer image of the flower.

Blc. Pinkie 'Debutante' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest 30(5), in the original false color

Lc. Quadroon 'Southern Belle' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Quadroon 'Southern Belle' AM/ODC 81.5 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Barnett. ODC Award Number 844. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 and 20 (January, 1960) with black-and-white photo. Note: SCOS #242.

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Mary Jane' HCC/ODC 77.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 845. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):19 (January, 1960). Note: SCOS #243.

November 3, 1959, San Diego County Orchid Society, San Diego, CA:

Lc. Bonanza 'Vista' HCC/ODC 75.6 points, exhibited by Harry W. Brough. ODC Award Number 787. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(1):20 (January, 1960). Note: possible date error?.

November 9, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cattleya White Sail 'Del Mar' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya White Sail 'Del Mar' CCM/ODC 85 points, exhibited by R. J. Chrisman. ODC Award Number 807. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960) and a black-and-white photo in 24(9):397 (November, 1960). Note: OSSC #673, and OSSC Review 1(11):12 notes the award is "O.D.C. only".

Cypripedium Greentippe 'Jean' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 808. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590437). Note: OSSC #674.

Cattleya Vesper Bells 'Flintridge' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Vesper Bells 'Flintridge' HCC/ODC 76.7 points, exhibited by Westenberger Orchid Nursery. ODC Award Number 809. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590436). Note: OSSC #675.

Lc. Memoria Albert Heinecke 'Aprica' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 810. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590439). Note: OSSC #677.

Bc. Hartland 'Gaiety' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 811. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590432). Note: OSSC #678.

Cattleya General Patton 'Bonsall' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 812. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590434). Note: OSSC #679.

Cattleya Karae Lyn Sugiyama 'Snowcrest' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 813. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 75 points (AOS Award Number 19590435). Note: OSSC #681.

Lc. Pacific Sun 'Torch' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Pacific Sun 'Torch' HCC/ODC 77.4 points, exhibited by Mrs. E. L. Harris. ODC Award Number 814. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590440). Note: OSSC #682.

Phalaenopsis Pasadena 'Sir Todd' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Lois A. Todd. ODC Award Number 815. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):64 (February, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590441). Note: OSSC #683.

Blc. Heron's Ghyll 'Hollywood' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. Lacks ODC award number. Published in OSSC Review 1(11):12 (December, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590433). Note: OSSC #676.

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Mary Jane' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Rolan R. Howard. Lacks ODC award number. Published in OSSC Review 1(11):13 (December, 1959). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 78 points (AOS Award Number 19590438). Note: OSSC #680.

November 15, 1959, Greater North Texas Orchid Society, Dallas, TX:

Lc. Molly Tyler 'FCC/AOS Variety' HCC/ODC 77.1 points, exhibited by Joe Meador. ODC Award Number 878. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(5):216 (May, 1960). Note: SCOS #250.

November 16, 1959, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Cattleya Hanniwell 'Siva' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Hanniwell 'Siva' AM/ODC 82 points, exhibited by John Baker. ODC Award Number 802. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):63 (February, 1960) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Red Tower 'Olympus' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Red Tower 'Olympus' AM/ODC 81.1 points, exhibited by William E. Farrell. ODC Award Number 803. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):63 (February, 1960) with black-and-white photo.

November 17, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging and evidence of shared photography.]

Odontoglossum Ophyras 'Strawberry Hill' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Ophyras 'Strawberry Hill' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Mrs. Charles Blyth. ODC Award Number 804. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):63 (February, 1960) and 24(3):cover (March, 1960) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590463, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Odontoglossum Ophyras 'Strawberry Hill' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Odontoglossum Crispatrium 'Strawbery Hill' AM/ODC 81 points, exhibited by Mrs. Charles Blyth. ODC Award Number 805. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):63 (February, 1960). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590462, and OrchidPro has a color photo).

Odontoglossum Crispatrium 'Strawbery Hill' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Phalaenopsis Grace Palm 'Redington' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Mrs. Charles Blyth. ODC Award Number 806. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(2):63 (February, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590464).

November 23, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Epicattleya Gigi 'Misty Green' HCC/ODC 76.9 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 846. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: SCOS #244.

Bc. Déesse 'Celeste' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by B. O. Bracey & Co. ODC Award Number 847. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: SCOS #245.

Cattleya Joyce Hannington 'Gay' HCC/ODC 77.5 points, exhibited by Karl Meyer. ODC Award Number 848. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: SCOS #246.

Lc. Pasadena Parade 'Cantarranos' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hecker . ODC Award Number 849. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(5)216 (May, 1960). Note: SCOS #247.

Cypripedium Nubian 'AM/RHS' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 850. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: SCOS #248.

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Mary Jane' AM/ODC 81.1 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Howard. ODC Award Number 851. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: SCOS #249.

December 1, 1959, San Francisco Orchid Society, San Francisco, CA:

Blc. Deborah Klein 'Surprise' HCC/ODC 76.6 points, exhibited by Niven's Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 816. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960).

Lc. Golden Wren 'Fleur d'Or' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Golden Wren 'Fleur d'Or' AM/ODC 81.7 points, exhibited by Ralph E. Hoyt. ODC Award Number 817. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960) and 121 with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Bow Best 'Shirley' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Bow Best 'Shirley' AM/ODC 80.5 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 818. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 and 117 (March, 1960) with black-and-white photo.

Lc. Sausalito 'Noire' HCC/ODC 76 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 819. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960).

Phalaenopsis Vallebeauty 'San Francisco' HCC/ODC 75 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 820. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960).

Lc. Medon 'San Francisco' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Medon 'San Francisco' AM/ODC 84.5 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 821. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 and 117 (March, 1960) with black-and-white photo.

Odontoglossum Niator 'San Francisco' HCC/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Odontoglossum Niator 'San Francisco' HCC/ODC 78 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 822. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960) with black-and-white photo on the frontispiece of this issue.

Odontoglossum Stropheon 'San Francisco' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Vallemar Gardens. ODC Award Number 823. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960).

Paphiopedilum Mooreheart 'Ben Hur' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest 24(3)

Cypripedium Mooreheart 'Ben Hur' AM/ODC 83 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 824. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960) and 121 with black-and-white photo. Also, the same photo appeared on the cover of Orchid Digest 25(4) (April, 1961)

Paphiopedilum Mooreheart 'Ben Hur' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest 25(4)

Blc. Pimola 'Dash o' Lime' AD/ODC points, exhibited by Nancy Ann Abbott. ODC Award Number 825. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960).

Cypripedium Lohengrin 'Mona' HCC/ODC 75.3 points, exhibited by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. ODC Award Number 826. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):117 (March, 1960).

December 14, 1959, Orchid Society of Southern California, Hollywood, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Cypripedium Crescent Meadow 'Rosemary' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Gordon E. Sawyer. ODC Award Number 832. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 (March, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590485). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):12, OSSC #684, ODC/AOS.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'El Sueño' AM/ODC 80.7 points, exhibited by Dos Pueblos Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 833. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 (March, 1960). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):12, OSSC #685, ODC/AOS. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590479, and OrchidPro has a color photo). A much better scan of the same award photo was published in Orchid Digest 64(2):57 (April, 2000) in an article by Courtney Hackney, Cattleyas: A Twentieth Century Tale, the source credited to Ernest Hetherington.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'El Sueño' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cattleya Bob Betts 'El Sueño' AM/AOS, from Orchid Digest 64(2):57

Lc. Charlesworthii 'Kennedy's' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 834. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 (March, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590486). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):12, OSSC #686, ODC/AOS, cultivar published by OSSC as 'Malibu', but in Orchid Digest as 'Kennedy's Variety'.

Lc. Bonanza 'Country Acres' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Lc. Bonanza 'Country Acres' AM/ODC 80.8 points, exhibited by Arthur Freed Orchids, Inc. ODC Award Number 835. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 (March, 1960) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 81 points (AOS Award Number 19590481). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):12, OSSC #687, ODC/AOS. OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #192442, attributed to Peter Plato Matthews.

Lc. Bonanza 'Country Acres' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cypripedium Betty Bracey 'Meadow Lark' HCC/ODC 76.8 points, exhibited by Gordon Sawyer. ODC Award Number 836. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 (March, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590483). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):12, OSSC #688, ODC/AOS.

Bc. Algernon 'White Splendor' HCC/ODC 78.4 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 837. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 80 points (AOS Award Number 19590478, and OrchidPro has a color photo). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):13, OSSC #689, ODC/AOS.

Rlc. Algernon 'White Splendor' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

Cypripedium Crescent Meadow 'Eleven' HCC/ODC 78.3 points, exhibited by E. C. Wilcox. ODC Award Number 838. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590485). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):13, OSSC #690, ODC/AOS.

Cattleya Porcia 'Hollywood' HCC/ODC 77.2 points, exhibited by Dr. Etta Gray. ODC Award Number 839. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 77 points (AOS Award Number 19590482). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):13, OSSC #692, ODC/AOS.

Cattleya Bob Betts 'Squaw Valley' HCC/ODC 75.5 points, exhibited by Dr. Westenberger. ODC Award Number 840. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: OSSC Review 2(1):13, OSSC #693, ODC/AOS.

[In addition, the awards list in OSSC Review 2(1)13 (January, 1960) has marked one award "A.O.S. only", Cymbidium Patricia Ann 'Moro Bay' AM/AOS 81.2 points (AOS Award Number 19590480, and OrchidPro has a color photo, exhibited by Norris Powell.]

Cymbidium Patricia Anne 'Baywood' AM/AOS, from OrchidPro

December 15, 1959, Orchid Society of California, Oakland, CA: [With concurrent AOS judging.]

Lc. Phyllis Tucker 'Globe' HCC/ODC 75.8 points, exhibited by Rod McLellan Co. ODC Award Number 827. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 (March, 1960). At the same event, this plant received HCC/AOS 76 points (AOS Award Number 19590489, but the cultivar name is listed as 'Globe' rather than 'The Globe').

Cattleya Tethys 'Frieda H' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cattleya Tethys 'Frieda H' AM/ODC 82.1 points, exhibited by Niven Orchid Company. ODC Award Number 828. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 and 117 (March, 1960) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590487). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287729.

Cattleya Tethys 'Frieda H' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

Cypripedium McLaren Park 'Lodi' AM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Cypripedium McLaren Park 'Lodi' AM/ODC 81.8 points, exhibited by Robert Fuller. ODC Award Number 829. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):115 and 117 (March, 1960) with black-and-white photo. At the same event, this plant received AM/AOS 82 points (AOS Award Number 19590488). OrchidWiz has a color version of the award photo, image #287730.

Cypripedium McLaren Park 'Lodi' AM/ODC, from OrchidWiz

December 21, 1959, Northwest Orchid Society, Seattle, WA:

Laelia gouldiana 'Bonniewood' CCM/ODC, from Orchid Digest

Laelia gouldiana 'Bonniewood' CCM/ODC 84 points, exhibited by Bonniewood Orchids. ODC Award Number 830. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 and 117 (March, 1960) with black-and-white photo.

Cattleya Bow Bells 'Wendy' HCC/ODC 79 points, exhibited by Herbert Schoenfeld. ODC Award Number 831. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960).

December 28, 1959, South Coast Orchid Society, Long Beach, CA:

Cattleya Eloquence 'Angelica' HCC/ODC 76.3 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Barnett. ODC Award Number 852. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: SCOS #250.

Cypripedium Charjan 'Questover' HCC/ODC 77.7 points, exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Rollan Howard. ODC Award Number 853. Published in Orchid Digest , 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: SCOS #252.

Cymbidium Bo-Peep 'Suntan' HCC/ODC 75.2 points, exhibited by Fred A. Stewart, Inc. ODC Award Number 854. Published in ODC Awards List, Orchid Digest 24(3):116 (March, 1960). Note: SCOS #251.

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