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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

I only regret two things in moving to Roanoke area---the inability to 
grow mangos and avocados (not those nasty, oily little California 
avocados)  
http://www.freshmangoes.com/varieties.html
 (Haden, Atkins, other mango cultivars)

http://www.horticultureworld.net/cultivars.htm
 (many mango cultivars around the world)

http://www.actahort.org/books/455/
 (book, numerous online articles on mango cultivation)

http://www.mango.co.za/moreabout/tommy.html
 (South African cultivzrs)

http://www.tropfruit.com/fourfillies.html
 (experimental farm, large variety of mangoes that taste good, have 
good texture, yield well in native locality, do not duplicate qualities 
in different location)

http://www.producepete.com/shows/mangoes.html
 (early, midseason, late mangoes from Florida, Mexico, Haiti)

http://www.ftg.org/horticulture/mangofest.html
 (Fairchild Troical Gardens, annual show and best source of mango 
information)

http://www.mgonline.com/mango.html
 (180 varieties grown at Fairchild Tropical Gardens, big trees hard to 
pick, prune small varieties to keep them small and pickable, use copper 
fungicide to control anthracnose in seasons of high heat and humidity)