Composition - Lucky Flower and Plants

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Composition - Lucky Flower and Plants  [duchas:4385653]

I often saw women, in the streets of Dublin selling button-hole flowers.  They sell violets and other small flowers with a sweet smell or perfume  Once or twice, I saw them selling heather to me a Howth, boy I thought it very strange because it is so plentiful around the Summit. 

One woman had some white-heather and to everyone she asked to buy some, she called it, the lucky heather. 

So white heather is said to be be lucky and I suppose the reason is, that it is very scarce I suppose too, that is why people say to find a four-leafed shamrock brings good luck also, for if there is such a thing at all, it must be very scarce for I never  knew anyone who even found one.