Intro: Pakistan having hardly 4% area under productive forests needs an unconventional approach to reduce the wide gap existing between wood supply and demand. To over come this imbalance foresters and researchers have realized the necessity of raising plantations of fast growing trees for quite some time. In this context they became interested in Hybrid poplars, in general, which ranked high among fast growing tree species owing to their intrinsic qualities and in Poplar clone 1-214, in particular, which is a natural selection and has widely been cultivated in Europe (Sheikh).