These (cedar) roots so twine and intertwine that the original
sap, drawn from the tender tips, must have nourished any one of
several trees indifferently, for heart-wood joins heart-wood in
scores of places near the stump and far from it, showing that
each tree stood not only on its own roots, but on those of its
neighbors all about it; not only was it nourished by its own
rootlets, but by those of trees near by. No gale could uproot
these swamp cedars. United they stood and divided they might not
fall.--PARKHURST.
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