The Worst Raspberry

When I bought my house, the owners left me a handy, if incomplete, guide to its garden. They mentioned a hedge of wild raspberries growing between the road and the hedge of wild blackberries. I faithfully pruned them and trellised them, relieved that they were a thornless variety.

When sholio visited, she mentioned that they didn't look like raspberries. I said they were definitely raspberries, as attested to by both the previous owners and my neighbors who had seen them growing. I said they must be some different-looking wild variant. Plus, when I examined the spent canes, they very clearly had raspberry-looking places where berries once had been.

They've been slowly ripening. Today I ate a couple. I was very disappointed that they were the worst raspberries I've ever had.

Then I thought, "Wait a sec..." It turned out that sholio was right! They are not any kind of raspberry. They are...

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But I need to plant some more actual raspberries.

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