I have no idea what you are talking about, but I know who S. Crane is without google!
To start, she claims to be an agriculturalist who became disillusion by modern means of propagation and systematic weakening of strains and somehow gleans the greening of the ancient of the ancients with only a snippet of a seed pod and a dubious leaf as evidence, but a chip on her shoulder so large that Paul Bunyan would have been mightily pressed to cleave from the signature sequoia itself.