The knight did as the old witch bade him, and, sure enough, she came out quite whole, but uglier than ever.
But she found her teeth in her own arm, and the little girl was gone--only to return again; and each time she came back she was tenfold uglier than before.
It no doubt enables ignorant gardeners to use a larger variety of plants as senseless colour-masses, but it is obvious that many, if not most, of the plants are individually made much uglier by the process.