Nursery may refer to:

Childcare

Nursery (room) A nursery is a bedroom within a house or other dwelling set aside for an infant or toddler. Historically, European nurseries had little decorations and were away from visitors' sight. An article in the 1842 British ''Cyclopedia of Domestic ...

, a room within the house designed for the care of a young child or children. *

Nursery school A preschool (sometimes spelled as pre school or pre-school), also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, play school, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin c ...

, a daycare facility for preschool-age children * Prison nursery, for imprisoned mothers with their young children

Places

Nursery, Texas Nursery is an unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Victoria Metropolitan Statistical Area. On April 12, 1833, Silvestre De León Silvestre De León (1802–1842) was the second son born to the ...

, unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas, United States * Nursery, Karachi, a suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan * Nursery Site, RI-273, historic site in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States * Nursery, British Columbia, a populated community in

British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...

Music

* '' Nursery Suite'' (1931), by Edward Elgar * ''The Nursery'' (song cycle) (1870), by Modest Mussorgsky

Art

* '' The Nursery'' (1660s), painting by

Gerard Dou Gerrit Dou (; 7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675), also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painting, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre s ...

, lost with the sinking of the

Vrouw Maria ''Vrouw Maria'' (''Lady Mary'') was a Dutch wooden two-masted merchant ship carrying a valuable cargo of art objects, captained by Raymund Lourens, that sank on 9 October 1771 in the Archipelago Sea, outer archipelago of the municipality of Nag ...

in 1771 * ''The Nursery (Christmas Stockings)'' (1936), painting by Stanley Spencer (76.5x91.8cm)

Plants and gardens

Plant nursery A nursery is a place where plants are plant propagation, propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry, or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which se ...

, a place where young plants or trees are raised *

Garden centre A garden centre (American English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail business that primarily sells plants and related products for Home gardening, domestic gardening. Gardening centers usually revolve around outdoor home imp ...

, retailer that sells plants and related products

Science

Stellar nursery Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space—sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions"— collapse and form stars. As a branch of astronomy, star formation inclu ...

, cosmic dust cloud in which stars form *

Nursery habitat In marine environments, a nursery habitat is a subset of all habitats where juveniles of a species occur, having a greater level of productivity per unit area than other juvenile habitats (Beck et al. 2001). Mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass ...

, where juveniles of a marine species occur

Other uses

Farm team In sports, a farm team (also referred to as farm system, developmental system, feeder team, or nursery club) is generally a Team sport, team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any s ...

, where sportspeople can gain experience before playing for a major team * Nursery handicap, in

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ...

and Irish

Horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its bas ...

, a flat handicap race limited to two-year-olds