The paper identifies areas for the collection of germ plasm, describes nursery techniques and presents results on progeny and clonal trials of Populus ciliata Wall, in Pakistan. Two-year-old seedlings of few individual trees originating from xeric habitat outperformed those of mesic habitat under high rainfall conditions. The saplings raised at 1300m.atitude and under controlled conditions exhibited better growth thus assign in early screening of progenies/clones. The species can be easily propagated asexually and the application of hormone had no significant effect on rooting. The narrow and broad-sense heritability was low emphasizing the importance of uniform site conditions and inclusion of a large number of progenies and clones in test plantations. These investigations suggest that a suitable breeding strategy would further bring about genetic improvement in Populus ciliata.