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To date, much of the research on plants during the Roman era in Egypt has focused on foodstuffs from sites on its E coast. The Beheira Survey, conducted by M. Kenawi in 200811,2 is the first project to look at the Western Delta in detail.3 In documenting 63 sites, the work has created the first comprehensive archaeological maps, identifying several wine4 and olive-oil production centres, and broadening our knowledge of the local economy. This paper argues that a complex within the survey area near Abu Hummus, excavated by H. Riad in 1960, was a nursery. Other examples of nurseries that raised plants, to be transplanted into the gardens of houses, villas, estates and temples, will also be reviewed, as well as the types of vessels used for the propagation of plants in nurseries, and their transport.