He wrote about now familiar fruits, nuts and spices, including coconuts, mangoes, cinnamon, cardamom and pepper.
Excerpts are below.
The stumps are then covered with mulch to encourage sprouting and are mature enough for cropping again within three years. The bark must be dried in the shade to protect its volatile oil content. Piper nigrum Pepper, the world's favourite spice and now grown in tropical countries world-wide, is a native of India's Western Ghats and has long been used in Ayurvedic medicine for digestive disorders. An evergreen creeper, it is propagated from cuttings and supported on tree trunks. The flowers appear in June and are followed by spikes of green berries.