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50 Years of Hybrid Poplar Research in the Northeast

POPLAR CULTURE was initiated in the Northeast in 1925 by Drs. A. B. Stout and E. J. Schreiner. An intensive hybridization and breeding program was undertaken during the years 1925 and 1926 at the New York Botanical Gardens and at Highland Park, Rochester, New York, under the control of the Oxford Paper Company, Rumford, Maine. The objective of the hybridization and breeding program was to produce hybrids or strains of poplar that would be faster growing than existing types, that would be resistant to disease, possess good forest form, and could be cheaply propagated from cuttings.


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Author(s): Maurice E. Demeritt, Jr.

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Northeastern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1981