Esoteric Scientific Theory #1

florigen

From the Latin, flora (flower) and genna (to beget).

That substance which explains the flowering of a plant (call this plant "Lily") upon the grafting of a blosom from another plant (call this plant "Dahlia") onto that first plant (you know, Lily).

Lily makes Dahlia bloom. Well of course she does.

But wait. "The inability to isolate florigen, however, has led some botanists to doubt wether the substance exists" ( so says the venerable Dictionary of Theories. 2002. Ed. J. Bothamly et al. Detroit: Visible Ink.).

What the boys don't know won't hurt them.

The Dickinsonian oracle knows. Miss Dickinson knows everything. Hence:

I tend my flowers for thee -
Bright Absentee!
My Fuschzia's Coral Seams
Rip - while the Sower - dreams -
(E. Dickinson, from 367)