Forest nurseries have also been founded.
Cleveland has also its orphan asylums, homes for the aged, homes for incurables, and day nurseries, besides a home for sailors, homes for young working women, and retreats for unfortunate girls.
The largest nurseries, however, are in the vicinity of Rochester.
In the irrigated fields the rice plants are first grown in nurseries, and are subsequently transplanted when they have reached a certain stage of development.
The monasteries, too, learned to serve the Church by becoming nurseries of literary and theological culture.