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The Results
From best to worst tasting:

1. rated #3
2. rated #4
3. rated #2
4. rated #6
5. rated #7 worst tasting
6. rated #1 best tasting
7. rated #5

Observations
The apple I thought would be one of the worst tasting (it was so small) turned out to be much the best. The apple I thought would be one of the best, number 5, was awful.

Some apples were sweet, but still not that great because they were also bitter.

Usually the smaller apple of the two samples from each tree was the sweetest.

Conclusions
The larger apple is not the better apple. The smaller apples were as sweet or sweeter than the larger ones, and had more flavour overall.

One of the worst qualities of wild apples is a bitter tinge that otherwise sweet apples sometimes have.

All the apples were more tart and sour than many store-bought apples. However, they all generally had a stronger more intense flavour than store-bought apples ever do. Six out of seven of these apples were delicious. Next time I pick wild apples, I’m going to look for more of the hardy, small apples.

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Wild Apples by Thoreau
"Apples for grafting appear to have been selected commonly, not so much for their spirited flavor, as for their mildness, their size, and bearing qualities, not so much for their beauty, as for their fairness and soundness. Indeed, I have no faith in the selected lists of pomological gentlemen. Their "Favorites" and "None-suches" and "Seek-no-farthers," when I have fruited them, commonly turn out very tame and forgetable. They are eaten with comparatively little zest, and have no real tang nor smack to them."

--from Wild Apples by Thoreau