The "Carosello of the Roses," for example, is a dazzling sword fight between six horsemen who try to slash short-stemmed roses from each other's helmets.
And Connie Francis makes a hardy, short-stemmed wallflower.
But only the weaver has a weaver's tooth (jagged from biting threads), only a peasant woman smoking a short-stemmed clay pipe has "the ulcer on her lower lip and the glossy scar .