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It is a Saturday afternoon in May. Esther's neighbor brought over a beautiful cutting from her old heirloom rose bush — the same variety her mother brought from Switzerland in 1962, still blooming every June, a flower you cannot buy in any catalog because the variety is no longer commercially propagated. The cutting is in your hand. Six inches of green stem with three sets of leaves. And if you can get this single cutting to root, you have multiplied a piece of history that almost died with the last bush of its kind.
You walk to the kitchen and pull out the small plastic container of commercial rooting hormone powder you bought at the garden center last spring. Fifteen dollars for two ounces. You stare at the label — "Indole-3-Butyric Acid 0.1%." One synthetic chemical, two ounces of talcum powder filler, fifteen dollars for what science researchers can measure in micrograms. And here you are, about to dip the most important cutting of the season into a product made in a factory when the same chemistry sits in your spice rack, your refrigerator, your honey jar, and the willow tree growi
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