A poem by Huang Tingjian mentions how "Wang Chongdao gave fifty narcissi," and Yang Wanli writes: "I planted 'floating guests' with my hands, and this year harvested thirty bushels. My study has become a rich kingdom of daffodils." Such words bear witness to how by this time cultivation of narcissi "could be seen everywhere in southern China."
而由黃庭堅詩題「王充道送水仙花五十枝」，楊萬里「手種凌波香，今歲便十斛，要知誠齋中，富抵水仙國」的詩句看來，宋代文人既有一送五十枝，一種便十斛的大手筆，想必水仙的栽植，在此時已是「江南處處可見」的光景了。