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["Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>]

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If there are any berries left at this time, I would propose this 
"test":

Find a berry barely ripe (just turning from red to black):

Pick it (rather than a direct pull, I would say a kind of 
rolling/tearing motion):
If it leaves a core, even if difficult, then its a raspberry
If the berry comes off w/ core then its a blackberry
If the stem comes w/ the berry, inconclusive, berry was probably too 
green.

Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6

--- In nafex@egroups.com, "Bruce & Joyce" <markie-ct@m...> wrote:
> I have always concidered the ones that pick hollow to be 
raspberries, and the
> ones that come off with cores to be blackberries. Around here, the 
wild
> raspberries are less abundant, though the vines we do get have lots 
of berries
> on them. The drupes (?) are smaller, and the flavor is distinctly 
different from
> the blackberry flavor.
> 
> Joyce
> >measure, they also tend to be better flavored. I have found that 
many types
> >of blackberries will pick hollow, especially when well ripened.