The Rosedown Mill E-Book Library

This is the place to find and download free electronic books (e-books) on exotic gardening. If you want to buy a conventional printed book, on the other hand, visit our Book Shop.

We currently have three e-books:
- Guide To Pachypodiums
- The Year 2000 Subtropical Gardening Newsletter Digest
- Introduction to Cold-hardy Palms

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Guide To Pachypodiums

This contains an introduction to the exotic Pachypodiums of Madagascar and Africa with pictures of the plants and flowers and lots of growing information.

Subtropical Gardening Newletter Digest 2000.

This contains a range of illustrated articles that first appeared in our e-mail Subtropical Gardening Newsletter during the year 2000. Note, due to time constraints, we no longer publish this newsletter.

Opening page of the Year 2000 Digest

... a page from the Subtropical Gardening Year 2000 Digest.
This issue includes articles on:
The Abyssinian Banana (Ensete ventricosum)
Hardy 'Parlour palms'
The Bamboo palm (Chamaedorea microspadix)
A guide to cold-hardy Sabal palms
Arum Lilies
Phormiums
Palm imposters
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Navigate the digest using the Index panel (Bookmarks)

...to navigate quickly around the articles in the Newsletter digest, use the Adobe Acrobate index (press the [F5] function key).


Introduction to Cold-hardy Palms.

E-Book 1 - An Introduction to Cold-hardy Palms
...a page from the Rosedown Mill Introduction to Cold-hardy palms seen here in the Adobe Acrobat reader.

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Our e-books are self-contained booklets packed with practical information and photographs. They can be viewed on screen or printed out using most up-to-date PDF (Portable Document Format) viewers. They may not be viewable in old PDF viewers (including old releases of the Adobe Acrobat Reader). We recommend version 5 or higher of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click the link at the bottom of this page to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Download a Rosedown Mill E-Book Here

To obtain one of our e-books using Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator - click the right mouse button over one of the links below and, from the menu that pops up, select the option to download the file (e.g. the menu option is 'Save Target As..' in Internet Explorer 5 and 'Save Link As...' in Netscape Communicator 4.5) - then use the dialog box to save the file to your hard disk.

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