Purposeful planting should be the keynote for all planting campaigns, endeavours and pursuits. All trees are multi-purpose assets but the choice should fall on a specie which fulfills the chief object of planting; the secondary benefits would accrue automatically. Among the multifarious uses of plants, the one rather less appreciated and even neglected aspect is that the plants are the sole source of nectar and pollen for the bees and bee-keeping industry .We talk and dream no stalically about a land overflowing with milk and honey but practically do nothing to realise our ambition. Generally it does not pay to raise plants specially for the bees but we can combine and encourage, by thoughtful selection of nectar-producing plants for the chief object which could be wood or landscaping and thus a honey crop would be harvested as a bye-product.