Just like the Wu Lou is auspicious to the orientals, the clover is seen in the same light by westerners. A long, long time ago in England, it was really rare to find a clover with four leaves. Most clovers have only three leaves. Hence if a person should accidentally find a four leaf clover, he/she would come into good fortune.According to legend, each leaflet represents something: the first is for hope, the second is for faith, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck.
Nowadays companies are producibng four-leaf clovers using different scientific means. I read that there are farms in the US which specialize in four-leaf clovers, producing as many as 10,000 a day (to be sealed in plastic as "lucky charms") by feeding a secret, genetically-engineered ingredient to the plants to encourage the aberration.
And do you know that people believe that a five-leaved clover is even luckier than a four-leaved one as they are less commonly found naturally than four-leaf clovers. Finding such a clover would mean extra good luck and it is supposed to be a money magnet as well. However, they, too, have been successfully cultivated. For the record, there are clovers with 21 leaves. I would really love to have a look at that.
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