The peculiarities of rooting of wooded cuttings and preservation of planted cuttings of different poplars clones of plantations are characterized in the conditions of Chernihiv Polissia. It has been carried out preliminary expert scientifically sound assessment of the suitability of using certain cultivars of poplar among clones of domestic and foreign breeding tested in test cultures for plantations establishment in conditions of wet fairly infertile pine site type and fairly infertile oak site type. It is determined that for establishing of forest plantations in the conditions of wet fairly infertile pine site type it is more efficient to use poplar cuttings of Toropohrytskii clone, and in the conditions of the wet and fairly infertile oak site type besides the mentioned cultivar, the clones ‘Blanc de Poitou’, ‘Serotina’ and ‘San Giorgio’ are better.
poplar, plantation forestry, forestry plantations, cultivar, clone, wooded cuttings