1754 Z. GREY Notes on Shakespeare I 108. An antient custom amongst the country fellows, of trying whether they shall succeed with their mistresses by carrying the bachellour's buttons (a plant of the lychnis kind, whose flowers resemble a coat button in form) in their pockets. And they judged of their good, or bad success, by their growing, or not growing there.
1851 J. W. WARTER Southey's Common Place Book 4th ser. 244 n. Within my own recollection, both in Shropshire and Staffordshire, this old custom was common enough.
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