<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for cultivating nursery stock, each free from the need of expertness in cutting work of trees, facilitating watering management, and excellent in a yield rate. <;P>;SOLUTION: This nursery stock cultivating system is such that a scion 12 of a tree is inserted in granular soil 11 which is filled in a cylindrical fine porous baked body 10, and the cylindrical fine porous baked body 10 is buried in a seedling bed laid with a water retaining material. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT