Behind him is Mary's Monet garden, the one with dahlias and sweet peas and stem roses, hydrangea and delphinium and monkshood.

I open the door and there he is, in the snow I haven't shoveled off the front stoop yet, holding out three long- stem roses.

Their waiter had adorned the little feast with a glass containing a few short- stemmed roses.

Jean-Claude sent me a dozen pure white, long- stemmed roses.

Someone pressed long- stemmed roses into her arms.

Grocers also keep their prices lower, he says, by not offering delivery, ordering earlier and getting shorter stemmed roses.

But that doesn't mean that the floral artist's garden is replete with a profusion of perfect carnations and long- stemmed roses.

If it turns out to be a dozen long- stemmed roses, I don't want to be there when Naomi finds out.

The maître d' came out with "thirty-three long- stemmed roses with white baby's breath and fern and ribbon," he remembered.

Heart-shaped boxes of chocolate and long- stemmed roses are everywhere, and people are eating those conversation hearts that taste like sweetened sidewalk chalk.

On arrival sip champagne and enjoy red velvet cupcakes while the butler unpacks your cases and arranges your long- stemmed roses in a vase.

The house was ablaze with candles-Bessiehad persuaded Isabelle to dispense with the electric light-andbunches of heavy, thick- stemmed roses filled the vases.

As the Charlestown equivalent of a Mafia don, Pete Postlethwaite capitalizes on the chance to pare the leaves from long- stemmed roses while delivering deadly ultimatums.