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Superior History Quiz

In the diary she kept in 1858, 12-year-old Ellen Harlow recorded picking many quarts of raspberries and blueberries. She called the raspberries “raspberries” but used a different name for blueberries. What was it?

A) Huckleberries

B) Whortleberries

C) Bilberries

D) Little blue jobbies

Answer: B: Whortleberries. The name is still commonly used in some parts of Colorado. Huckleberry and bilberry are also names sometimes given to the same or related plants.

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