perhaps brown's sternest critic was his contemporary uvedale price, who likened brown's clumps of trees to "so many puddings turned out of one common mould." russell page, who began his career in the brownian landscape of longleat but whose own designs have formal structure, accused brown of "encouraging his wealthy clients to tear out their splendid formal gardens and replace them with his facile compositions of grass, tree clumps and rather shapeless pools and lakes."