First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3-4 inches (8-10cm), cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds.

About the 15th of May the keel of the new vessel lay along the dockyard, and soon the stem and stern-post, mortised at each of its extremities, rose almost perpendicularly.

The ship sank quite picturesquely, bow first, the stem rising high out of the water whilst the hull shot down perpendicularly to the bottom of the sea.

Slowly, inch by inch, a single thorny stem, an unnaturally straight and rather thick one, was rising through the upper branches.

The stem to which he clung had diminished to a bare five foot diameter, but rose on toward the green upper forest.

It starts blossoming after its stem rises 40 to 50 cm above the support.

The narrow stem of the dark plume rises vertically nearly five miles into the thin nitrogen-methane atmosphere.

The stem is usually unbranched and rises from a basal rosette.

From the centre of the basin rises an octagonal stem on a cruciform base with the statue of a marine god at each corner.

From large reddish rhizomatous roots rises a striated, hollow stem with bristly hairs.