Tall snapdragons and lilies and sweet-williams and phlox in the garden-beds.
A fruit tree or two, heavy with blossom or fruit.
Only old-fashioned people lived in the Mall nowadays, and the glimpses the children caught of the owners of those terrestrial paradises fitted in with the idea of fairyland.

They were always old ladies and gentlemen, and they were old-fashioned in their attire, but very magnificent.

There was one old lady who was the very Fairy Godmother of the stories.

She was the one who had the magnificent mulberry-tree in her garden.

One day in every year the children were called in to strip the tree of its fruit; and that was a great day for Wistaria Terrace.
The children were allowed to bring basins to carry away what they could not eat; and benevolent men-servants would ascend to the overweighted boughs of the tree by ladders and pick the fruit and load up the children's basins with it.