"You so loved bright flowers
That on them as the butterfly flitted
And giving to admirers the dreams,
Heart you promised nobody..."
Butterfly (the latin name Lepidoptera) is one of the most beautiful living beings which were created by the nature. For a long time they associated with human soul. About them were composed many poetic legends in which butterflies personify intimate dreams of the person of beauty, freedom, winged sentiments happiness is put! Ancient Romans believed that butterflies occurred from the flowers which have come off plants.

This year the tajik post addressed again to the subject of butterflies and flowers. On October 25, 2012 in Tajikistan is introduced into post circulation a set of 8 values printed in 2 block of 4 in perforated and imperforated versions in 2 mini sheet of 9 series. On stamps are presented a cultivated flowers and a different types of multi-colored butterflies.
The issue is printed by Company "Publishing house "Belarusian House Printing" (Belarus).

The people quite often associate themselves with butterflies, unsuccessfully trying to copy their manners: independence, elegance, carelessness.
"...Better a little without melancholy there isn't enough
For to live as white moths
And to fly itself near the earth".